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Housing

Volume 685: debated on Tuesday 10 October 2006

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by the Minister for Housing and Planning, Yvette Cooper, (HC Deb, 1743W), how many dwellings were built in England on previously developed land; and how many were built on previously residential land in each of the years from 1994 to 2004 inclusive.[HL6975]

Estimates are as follows.

Number of new dwellings built on previously developed land

Number of new dwellings on previously residential land

Number of new dwellings built on greenfield

1990

88,500

32,800

75,400

1991

81,900

24,700

72,700

1992

80,500

23,000

63,300

1993

82,800

17,700

65,000

1994

85,300

17,000

71,100

1995

89,600

18,900

67,600

1996

85,000

16,400

64,100

1997

83,700

16,400

65,800

1998

82,000

17,000

59,400

1999

82,700

18,900

57,500

2000

83,700

20,900

51,300

2001

81,500

20,900

47,900

2002

91,600

21,200

45,100

2003

100,600

21,000

43,100

2004

110,300

20,300

43,100

The estimates are based on total numbers of new dwellings from the completions figures supplied by local authorities and proportions of new dwellings on previously developed land and on previously residential land from the department's land use change statistics.