Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the inclusion of land on a statutory register of brownfield land suitable for housing in England will prevent the owner applying for planning permission for another use, and that permission being granted.

We are committed to ensuring that suitable brownfield land is used as much as possible for the development of new homes and transparent information in local registers will support this objective. The inclusion of sites on brownfield registers will not prevent an applicant applying for planning permission to develop the site for any other use. The determination of planning applications is for local decision makers.