New dwellings granted permission — South West — Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
91, latest Q1 2026.
The count stood at 91 in Q1 2026. That is 54.2% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 119 in Q4 2021; the latest figure is 23.5% below that peak. Its low point was 46 in Q3 2025; the latest reading is 98% above that.
Show the numbers (28 periods)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | 91 |
| Q4 2025 | 58 |
| Q3 2025 | 46 |
| Q2 2025 | 75 |
| Q1 2025 | 59 |
| Q4 2024 | 72 |
| Q3 2024 | 66 |
| Q2 2024 | 83 |
| Q1 2024 | 70 |
| Q4 2023 | 63 |
| Q3 2023 | 84 |
| Q2 2023 | 82 |
| Q1 2023 | 74 |
| Q4 2022 | 84 |
| Q3 2022 | 112 |
| Q2 2022 | 108 |
| Q1 2022 | 93 |
| Q4 2021 | 119 |
| Q3 2021 | 97 |
| Q2 2021 | 79 |
| Q1 2021 | 79 |
| Q4 2020 | 88 |
| Q3 2020 | 85 |
| Q2 2020 | 64 |
| Q1 2020 | 82 |
| Q4 2019 | 72 |
| Q3 2019 | 105 |
| Q2 2019 | 90 |
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 compared with other areas: This figure is unusually high compared with other areas currently publishing this dataset — 91 against a typical figure (median) of about 16 across 295 other areas. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward comparison.
- Unusually high in Q4 2021: This area's Q4 2021 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q4 2021 — 119 against a typical figure (median) of about 22 across 291 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 91 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Q1 2026 Caveats: Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q4 2021; 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/bournemouth-christchurch-and-poole/planning-permissions
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