New dwellings granted permission — North West — Manchester

32, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 32 in Q1 2026. That is 52.4% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 81 in Q2 2003; the latest figure is 60.5% below that peak. Its low point was 15 in Q1 2009; the latest reading is 113% above that.

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 Q1 2000: This area's Q1 2000 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q1 2000 — 74 against a typical figure (median) of about 23 across 276 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 — North West
32 for Manchester, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high in Q1 2000; 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/manchester/planning-permissions

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