Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2016 to Question 46112, in what proportion of those planning permissions where building has not yet commenced (a) a developer has an option to build or is otherwise working in partnership with the landowner, (b) a developer owns the land and (c) no developer is in place.

The Department does not hold this information.

The Government is clear that where sites have planning permission they should move ahead as quickly as possible. That is why we are actively taking a number of steps to tackle some of the factors which can delay the start of development, including the measures in the Neighbourhood Planning Bill to improve the use of pre-commencement conditions.