Housing: Construction
(asked on 26th March 2025) - View Source
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 25 March 2025 to Question 39650 on Housing: Construction, what types of property qualify as a dwelling.
This question was answered on 31st March 2025
The definition of a dwelling is published on gov.uk here under “Dwelling (Housing supply; net additional dwellings)”.
The conversion of an existing residential property into a house of multiple occupancy does not count as a net additional dwelling in the official statistics on housing supply or dwelling stock estimates.