Analysis and action on living standards
To the extent that housing supply is a key lever in easing the housing crisis long-term, there is cause for concern, with planning approvals for new housing developments at record lows and declining social rent completions.
Planning approvals for new housing developments are at record a lows, a function of fewer applications coming in.
Read more about this in the Housing Outlook Q2 2025.
Includes both minor and major dwellings planning applications.
RF analysis of MHCLG, District Planning application statistics (PS2) – full dataset.
Download the data.
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