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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many homes they predict will be created by repurposing existing buildings during the next five years.

The Government is committed to building 1.5m homes over the next parliament and that development must look to brownfield first, prioritising previously used land wherever possible. We proposed a set of targeted changes in our consultation on reforms to the NPPF to support this, alongside proposals to release low-quality grey belt land within the Green Belt to meet housing and other development needs

It is for local authorities, in consultation with their communities, to set out the most appropriate strategy to meet their housing needs.