questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2024 to Question 39650 on Housing: Construction, whether quarterly data on planning applications and housing starts and completions classifies the approval of a retrospective planning application of the conversion of a house into an HMO as a new dwelling.
answerText: Within the Department’s quarterly official statistics on planning applications, an application for the conversion of a house into a house in multiple occupation (HMO) would not be classified as an application for a new dwelling. Applications within Use Cl...
heading: Housing: Construction