Derelict Land

(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many houses were built on brownfield sites in each region of the number of houses in (a) 2019/20, (b) 2020/21, (c) 2021/22 and (d) the current year to date.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 8th November 2022

The percentages of new residential addresses created on previously developed land in each region are available as below. Figures for more recent years are not yet available.

  • Averaged for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20 at Live Table P301 (Column AD) at the following link.
  • Averaged for the period 2018-19 to 2020-21 at Live Table P301 (Column AD) at the following link.
  • Averaged for the period 2019-20 to 2021-22 at Live Table P301 (Column AD) at the following link.

The Government is supporting housing supply, including remediation of brownfield land, through a range of programmes, including the Brownfield Housing Fund and the Brownfield Land Release Fund. The information published by the Department is available in the Annual Report and Accounts. The latest Annual Report and Accounts is available here.

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