Community Assets: Planning
Commons · Question 59265 · Tabled 11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to take steps to improve protections for (a) pubs and (b) other community assets against (i) long-term commercial vacancy and (ii) speculative planni
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 17 Jun 2025
Through the forthcoming English Devolution Bill, we will introduce a ‘right to buy’ for valued community assets, such as pubs and other spaces. This will give communities stronger powers to secure these assets if they go up for sale.Long-term vacant pubs ...