Asylum: Hotels
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the use of a hotel as asylum hostel accommodation constitutes a material change of use.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
Whether or not use of a hotel to accommodate asylum seekers would constitute a material change of use requiring planning permission will be a matter of fact and degree for the local planning authority to determine in the first instance, depending on the individual circumstances of each case.
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