§ Mrs. Lena Jegerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what advice he has given to local planning authorities to help them differentiate between hotel use and normal residential use of housing accommodation;
(2) what is his estimate of the amount of residential accommodation in Central London which has been transferred to hotel use; and what action he proposes to take to stop this diminution of residential accommodation.
§ Mr. PeytonMy Department will shortly be discussing with the three central London borough councils means of preventing unauthorised changes from residential to hotel use.
The rate of change was estimated, in March, 1971, at about 1,000 bed spaces a year. It has since been reduced.