Housing: Land Use

(asked on 1st September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to Question 18620 of 23 July 2026, on Housing: Land Use, what spatial modelling her Department has undertaken to assess how the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes will be distributed between (a) previously developed land, (b) greenfield land within existing settlements, (c) greenfield land outside existing settlements, (d) Green Belt land released through local plans and (e) grey belt land; what datasets and assumptions are used in that modelling; and whether she plans to publish (i) the results and (ii) underlying methodology.


Answered by
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 11th November 2026

My Department has made no such specific assessments.

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