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 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