Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 75750

Housing: Construction

Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the average time since planning was granted for house building starts in each of the last five years.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
The Department does not collect data on the time taken between the granting of planning permission for a residential development and the start of housebuilding within the development.The information that the Department routinely collects on house building...

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