Question follow-through · 86863

Brownfield Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the number of homes on brownfield land granted planning permission since 4 July 2024.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
7 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the number of homes on brownfield land granted planning permission since 4 July 2024.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    My Department publishes the number of planning applications for dwellings granted and refused per quarter by local authority in the PS2 open data file in our quarterly planning application statistics release. It can be found on gov.uk here. The number of ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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