Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many residential units were granted planning permission in each financial year since 2006-7.

The Department sources information on the number of residential units granted permission in the last 12 months from Glenigan. The latest snapshot of the planning system is routinely published in the department’s quarterly ‘Planning Applications in England’ publication, the latest of which, with notes relevant to the below data (found on page 30), can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741789/Planning_Applications_April_to_June_2018_-_statistical_release.pdf

Figure 6 on page 11 shows a chart of the quarterly year to date time series from Quarter 1, 2007 to Quarter 2, 2018. Please see the table below for the underlying figures requested for each financial year from 2006/07 to 2017/18.

Number of residential units granted planning permission in the previous 12 months by financial year.

Source: Glenigan