Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she will take to help ensure local planning authorities can identify when a residential property has undergone a change of use to become a short term holiday let property.

The Tourism Recovery Plan, published in June 2021 committed to considering a Tourism Accommodation Registration Scheme in England.

To better understand the issues faced by both communities and businesses, we intend to launch a call for evidence seeking views on the range of issues that arise from the increase in short term and holiday letting. I want to understand the market today, as well as the benefits and challenges of the increase in short-term and holiday letting we have seen in England in recent years.

The broad C3 ‘dwellinghouse’ use class does not distinguish between the type of occupant or tenure. It is for local planning authorities to consider individual cases, as a matter of fact and degree, as to whether there has been a material change of use requiring planning permission.