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New dwellings granted permission — South West — Dorset

90, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 90 in Q1 2026. That is 12.5% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 138 in Q2 2020; the latest figure is 34.8% below that peak. Its low point was 69 in Q4 2025; the latest reading is 30% above that.

Show the numbers (28 periods)
New dwellings granted permission — South West, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 202690
Q4 202569
Q3 202575
Q2 202578
Q1 202580
Q4 202494
Q3 2024112
Q2 202482
Q1 202489
Q4 202384
Q3 202381
Q2 202392
Q1 202391
Q4 2022105
Q3 2022100
Q2 2022111
Q1 2022138
Q4 2021113
Q3 2021118
Q2 2021126
Q1 2021104
Q4 2020115
Q3 202092
Q2 2020138
Q1 2020124
Q4 2019123
Q3 2019128
Q2 2019136

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 — 90 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 Q3 2024: This area's Q3 2024 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q3 2024 — 112 against a typical figure (median) of about 18 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
90 for Dorset, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q3 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/dorset/planning-permissions

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