Planning Permissions and Housing Output

Pending an eagerly anticipated Housing White Paper, this research report unpacks the relationship between planning permissions and the output of new housing. Permission was granted for 261,644 new homes in 2015 in England, whilst net completions in 2015–16 amounted to 189,650 (of which 163,940 were new build), just under the 200,000 figure the Government needs to meet its target of delivering 1m homes in this Parliament.