The latest annual volume of Housing and Planning Statistics for 2010 was released on 2 December 2010 under arrangements in line with the code of practice for official statistics.
This annual compendium covers all aspects of housing and planning in England (and in some cases, tables also cover the United Kingdom). Key figures from the report show:
- In the year ending June 2010, authorities that undertake district level planning received around 475,000 applications, compared to around 1,600 for those authorities responsible for ‘county matters’ applications.
- There were 21.5 million households in England in 2008-09: 14.6 million owner-occupiers; 3.8 million social renters; and 3.1 million private renters.
- Net additions to the stock (new build plus conversions and change of use, less demolitions) rose from 132,000 net additions per annum in 2000-01, to a peak of 207,370 in 2007-08 before falling to 128,680 in 2009-10.
- Between 2008 and 2009, new build completions decreased by 17 per cent, from 143,000 to 118,000.
- In England during 2009 the lower quartile house price was 6.28 times the lower quartile full-time individual earnings.
- The number of households in England is projected to rise by 5.8 million from 2008 to 2033, an increase of 232,000 per year on average reaching 27.5 million in 2033.
- A total of 57,730 gross additional affordable homes were supplied in England in 2009-10. This is an increase of 4 per cent on 2008-09.
- There was a steady decline in the percentage of homes in the least energy efficient Band G, from 9 per cent in 1996 to less than 4 per cent in 2008.
- In 2009, on a provisional estimate, 80 per cent of dwellings (including conversions) were built on previously-developed land, unchanged from 2008.
The compendium is a snapshot of data available at the time of going to print (Autumn 2010). More up-to-date data are published as they become available as live tables (see links from the page below).
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