Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 26551 on Business Premises: Change of Use, how many additional dwellings were provided from the prior approval applications from October 2022 to September 2024.

The office to residential permitted development right (Class O) was subsumed into the commercial, business and service uses to residential permitted development right (Class MA) in August 2022.

The Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply.

It includes estimates of new dwellings delivered from change of use through permitted development rights in England in each financial year, up to 2023-24, and can be found in Live Table 120 on gov.uk here.

The government continues to keep permitted development rights under review.