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New dwellings granted permission — South West — Cornwall

236, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 236 in Q1 2026. That is 26.0% lower than a year earlier. The series peaked at 712 in Q4 2018; the latest figure is 66.9% below that peak. Its low point was 234 in Q4 2023; the latest reading is 1% above that.

Show the numbers (68 periods)
New dwellings granted permission — South West, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 2026236
Q4 2025257
Q3 2025267
Q2 2025273
Q1 2025319
Q4 2024248
Q3 2024242
Q2 2024261
Q1 2024272
Q4 2023234
Q3 2023286
Q2 2023277
Q1 2023329
Q4 2022321
Q3 2022341
Q2 2022389
Q1 2022385
Q4 2021326
Q3 2021370
Q2 2021372
Q1 2021394
Q4 2020402
Q3 2020385
Q2 2020356
Q1 2020363
Q4 2019426
Q3 2019469
Q2 2019378
Q1 2019355
Q4 2018712
Q3 2018483
Q2 2018460
Q1 2018414
Q4 2017419
Q3 2017479
Q2 2017438
Q1 2017489
Q4 2016472
Q3 2016476
Q2 2016433
Q1 2016364
Q4 2015341
Q3 2015379
Q2 2015377
Q1 2015361
Q4 2014346
Q3 2014355
Q2 2014315
Q1 2014294
Q4 2013319
Q3 2013340
Q2 2013311
Q1 2013358
Q4 2012356
Q3 2012363
Q2 2012369
Q1 2012329
Q4 2011359
Q3 2011298
Q2 2011307
Q1 2011264
Q4 2010364
Q3 2010330
Q2 2010311
Q1 2010282
Q4 2009340
Q3 2009324
Q2 2009357

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 — 236 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 2018: This area's Q4 2018 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q4 2018 — 712 against a typical figure (median) of about 28 across 284 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
236 for Cornwall, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q4 2018; 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/cornwall/planning-permissions

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