| Heading: |
Community Assets: Planning |
| Question ID: |
1811811 |
| UIN: |
59265 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5296 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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 |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4520 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Matthew Pennycook
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| Answering Member handle: |
mtpennycook
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mtpennycook
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| Answer text: |
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 ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |