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New dwellings granted permission — South West — Bath and North East Somerset

31, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 31 in Q1 2026. That is 16.2% lower than a year earlier. The series peaked at 64 in Q2 2017; the latest figure is 51.6% below that peak. Its low point was 12 in Q2 1996; the latest reading is 158% above that.

Show the numbers (120 periods)
New dwellings granted permission — South West, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 202631
Q4 202533
Q3 202545
Q2 202546
Q1 202537
Q4 202462
Q3 202449
Q2 202444
Q1 202433
Q4 202344
Q3 202326
Q2 202337
Q1 202326
Q4 202234
Q3 202239
Q2 202224
Q1 202235
Q4 202143
Q3 202141
Q2 202148
Q1 202149
Q4 202028
Q3 202033
Q2 202029
Q1 202046
Q4 201953
Q3 201961
Q2 201957
Q1 201947
Q4 201851
Q3 201858
Q2 201851
Q1 201833
Q4 201760
Q3 201750
Q2 201764
Q1 201750
Q4 201639
Q3 201638
Q2 201655
Q1 201648
Q4 201545
Q3 201543
Q2 201540
Q1 201560
Q4 201447
Q3 201443
Q2 201440
Q1 201443
Q4 201340
Q3 201347
Q2 201354
Q1 201344
Q4 201243
Q3 201246
Q2 201236
Q1 201235
Q4 201159
Q3 201149
Q2 201128
Q1 201143
Q4 201057
Q3 201048
Q2 201051
Q1 201035
Q4 200938
Q3 200946
Q2 200934
Q1 200928
Q4 200842
Q3 200841
Q2 200846
Q1 200842
Q4 200732
Q3 200725
Q2 200737
Q1 200737
Q4 200635
Q3 200633
Q2 200625
Q1 200628
Q4 200533
Q3 200526
Q2 200534
Q1 200524
Q4 200422
Q3 200434
Q2 200436
Q1 200430
Q4 200316
Q3 200320
Q2 200318
Q1 200322
Q4 200227
Q3 200222
Q2 200214
Q1 200222
Q4 200125
Q3 200122
Q2 200125
Q1 200125
Q4 200026
Q3 200022
Q2 200028
Q1 200021
Q4 199914
Q3 199922
Q2 199917
Q1 199928
Q4 199828
Q3 199818
Q2 199822
Q1 199814
Q4 199719
Q3 199716
Q2 199727
Q1 199725
Q4 199624
Q3 199623
Q2 199612

What these terms mean

Planning Permissions Granted
MHCLG's quarterly count of planning decisions granting permission for new dwellings, major and minor developments summed -- each decision counted once, not the number of dwelling units it covers. Source
Major and minor developments
MHCLG classifies a dwellings application as 'major' when it proposes 10 or more homes, and 'minor' when it proposes fewer than 10. This figure sums both, matching how Ireland's own planning permissions figure is not split by scheme size either.

Before you use these figures

  • Unusually high in Q4 2024: This area's Q4 2024 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q4 2024 — 62 against a typical figure (median) of about 17 across 295 other areas that period. No longer this dataset's latest period, so a look at just today's headline figure would not have caught it -- flagged here from a check across the dataset's full history. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward trend.
  • Latest figure Q1 2026: This series is quarterly; the most recent published figure is Q1 2026, 2 quarters before Q3 2026. That may reflect the publisher's release schedule rather than missing data.

Cite this figure:

New dwellings granted permission — South West
31 for Bath and North East Somerset, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high in Q4 2024; Latest figure Q1 2026
StatsMapped last confirmed this figure on 9 Sep 2026.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — Planning Application Statistics (PS2)
https://statsmapped.com/united-kingdom/local-authority/bath-and-north-east-somerset/planning-permissions

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