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

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent estimate they have made of the amount of brownfield land that is available for building homes at present where planning permission has been approved but no building has taken place.

I refer the Noble Lord to the answer given to PQ 129970 on 31 January 2023.

This information is not held by the Department. However, the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which is currently going through the legislative process, contains a number of provisions which, if agreed by Parliament, will offer additional powers to encourage developers to build out more quickly. We recently consulted on changes to national planning policy which included proposals to publish data on developers of sites over a certain size in cases where they fail to build out according to their commitments. We also intend to consult on proposals to introduce a financial penalty against developers who are building out too slowly.