To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the housing density is of Bournemouth. (220397)

Information on housing density is not compiled centrally.

We do however have the density of new build dwellings averaged over a four-year period. These are provided at local authority level on the CLG website in Live table P232. The web address for Live table P232 is:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/plariningandbuilding/xls/822906.xls

The average density of new build dwellings for the period 2003 to 2006 for the unitary authority of Bournemouth was 70 dwellings per hectare.