Housing: South West
(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new homes have been built in (1) Cornwall, and (2) Devon, in each year since 2010.
Estimates of the number of new homes built in Cornwall and Devon are published by the Department as part of ‘House building; new build dwellings in England’. The number of new homes built, in Cornwall and Devon since 2010/11, is shown in the table below.
Table 1. House building; new build dwellings completed.
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 (Q1 only) | Total (to June 2017) |
Cornwall | 1,450 | 1,820 | 1,680 | 1,430 | 1,880 | 1,760 | 1,750 | 520 | 12,300 |
Devon | 1,870 | 2,220 | 1,770 | 2,840 | 3,030 | 3,110 | 3,340 | 920 | 19,100 |
A more complete picture of housing supply (including conversions and change of use) is provided by the ‘net additional dwelling’ statistics. The number of net additional dwellings delivered, in Cornwall and Devon since 2010/11, is shown in the table below.
Table 2. Housing Supply; net additional dwellings.
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | Total (to 2015-16) |
Cornwall | 2,390 | 2,380 | 2,280 | 2,030 | 2,700 | 2,600 | 14,380 |
Devon | 2,650 | 2,360 | 2,260 | 3,340 | 3,910 | 3,940 | 18,550 |