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The count stood at 46 in Q1 2026. That is 16.4% lower than a year earlier.

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Planning applications granting new dwellings — Northumberland

46, latest Q1 2026 (-16.4% year on year, from 55).

The count stood at 46 in Q1 2026. That is 16.4% lower than a year earlier. The series peaked at 111 in Q3 2017; the latest figure is 58.6% below that peak. Its low point was 29 in Q2 2009; the latest reading is 59% above that.

Show the numbers (68 periods)
Planning applications granting new dwellings — Northumberland, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 202646
Q4 202552
Q3 202567
Q2 202545
Q1 202555
Q4 202455
Q3 202468
Q2 202467
Q1 202444
Q4 202358
Q3 202363
Q2 202366
Q1 202365
Q4 202278
Q3 202254
Q2 202254
Q1 202259
Q4 202174
Q3 202154
Q2 202172
Q1 202159
Q4 202061
Q3 202077
Q2 202054
Q1 202066
Q4 2019101
Q3 201980
Q2 201967
Q1 201954
Q4 201873
Q3 201881
Q2 201880
Q1 201899
Q4 201794
Q3 2017111
Q2 201772
Q1 2017106
Q4 201687
Q3 201694
Q2 2016100
Q1 201696
Q4 2015101
Q3 201595
Q2 201598
Q1 201596
Q4 2014101
Q3 201476
Q2 201483
Q1 201465
Q4 201385
Q3 201375
Q2 201374
Q1 201368
Q4 201258
Q3 201253
Q2 201248
Q1 201255
Q4 201177
Q3 201186
Q2 201186
Q1 201138
Q4 201072
Q3 201054
Q2 201055
Q1 201047
Q4 200941
Q3 200943
Q2 200929

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 Q2 2011: This area's Q2 2011 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q2 2011 — 86 against a typical figure (median) of about 22 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 — 3 quarters old: This dataset is published quarterly and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.

Cite this figure:

Planning applications granting new dwellings — Northumberland
46 for Northumberland, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high in Q2 2011; Latest figure: Q1 2026 — 3 quarters old
StatsMapped last confirmed this figure unchanged on 9 Sep 2026.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — Planning Application Statistics (PS2)
https://statsmapped.com/united-kingdom/local-authority/northumberland/planning-permissions

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