Change of use of drinking establishments

Part of Neighbourhood Planning Bill – in the House of Commons am 2:00 pm ar 28 Mawrth 2017.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Anne Main Anne Main Ceidwadwyr, St Albans 2:00, 28 Mawrth 2017

St Albans has lost 157,000 square feet of office space recently, a lot of that because demand in St Albans is so high. Does the Minister share my concern that this may provide a perverse incentive not to deliver on housing? If the area does not mind losing office space—I am not saying that this is the case—it seems a quick and easy win to allow offices to shrivel on the vine. I am very concerned to ensure that that does not happen in St Albans.