Holiday Accommodation: Planning Permission
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on introducing a new planning use class C5 for short-term lets in England; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including in it properties described by the landlord as guest houses but that are short-term lets within a house in multiple occupation.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The previous government consulted on proposals for a new planning use class for short-term lets.
The consultation generated a wide range of responses and highlighted both the merits and various challenges associated with the proposal.
In addition to the measures the government has already committed to, including a registration scheme for short term lets and changes to the furnished holiday lets rules, we continue to consider what additional powers we might give local authorities to enable them to respond to the pressures created by excessive concentrations of short-term lets, and what type of properties such powers might apply to.
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