Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 18619

Planning Authorities: Housing

Tabled: 14 July 2026
Answered: 23 July 2026

Question

Wendy Morton

ConservativeAldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local planning authorities which will meet the housing requirements generated by the revised standard method; what estimate he has made

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
The standard method identifies a minimum annual housing need figure and ensures that plan-making is informed by an unconstrained assessment of the number of homes needed in an area. It does not produce a housing requirement figure. Once local housing need...

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