All pubs will get protection from being turned into housing or offices under a shakeup of planning laws in England to be presented by Angela Rayner this week.
The housing secretary will publish a new national planning policy framework aimed at loosening planning laws even further to help build 3m homes by the end of the parliament.
The government had previously been consulting on whether to change planning laws to protect the last pub in an area from being turned into housing or commercial use, but the limits of that proposal prompted warnings from hospitality campaigners that thousands of pubs could be lost.
Ministers have now decided this will apply to all pubs facing the threat of conversion into another use.
