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Derelict Land: Greater London

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what percentage of new homes were built on brownfield sites in each London borough in each of the last five years. (154812)

Statistics for the period 2001 to 2005 (the most recent and statistically robust available) for the percentage of new dwellings (not including conversions) built on previously-developed (“brownfield”) land are shown in the following table. The figure for the whole of London is 94 per cent.

Percentage of dwellings built on previously-developed land, in London 2001-05

Percentage

Barking and Dagenham

84

Barnet

93

Bexley

87

Brent

85

Bromley

90

Camden

93

City of London

100

Croydon

99

Baling

90

Enfield

92

Greenwich

95

Hackney

99

Hammersmith and Fulham

100

Haringey

100

Harrow

86

Havering

96

Hillingdon

88

Hounslow

93

Islington

99

Kensington and Chelsea

99

Kingston upon Thames

94

Lambeth

94

Lewisham

99

Merton

90

Newham

82

Redbridge

97

Richmond upon Thames

98

Southwark

94

Sutton

99

Tower Hamlets

98

Waltham Forest

94

Wandsworth

100

Westminster

100