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New dwellings granted permission — West Midlands — Shropshire

74, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 74 in Q1 2026. That is 1.4% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 270 in Q2 2016; the latest figure is 72.6% below that peak. Its low point was 56 in Q4 2024; the latest reading is 32% above that.

Show the numbers (68 periods)
New dwellings granted permission — West Midlands, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 202674
Q4 202557
Q3 202565
Q2 202565
Q1 202573
Q4 202456
Q3 202478
Q2 2024100
Q1 202479
Q4 202371
Q3 202390
Q2 202391
Q1 202390
Q4 202283
Q3 202284
Q2 202288
Q1 202275
Q4 2021105
Q3 202197
Q2 202195
Q1 202191
Q4 202088
Q3 202098
Q2 202098
Q1 2020124
Q4 2019130
Q3 2019138
Q2 2019104
Q1 2019125
Q4 2018127
Q3 2018130
Q2 2018145
Q1 2018144
Q4 2017150
Q3 2017171
Q2 2017143
Q1 2017169
Q4 2016178
Q3 2016188
Q2 2016270
Q1 2016144
Q4 2015179
Q3 2015200
Q2 2015138
Q1 2015147
Q4 2014150
Q3 2014134
Q2 2014106
Q1 2014124
Q4 2013113
Q3 2013118
Q2 201394
Q1 201387
Q4 2012103
Q3 201283
Q2 201278
Q1 201291
Q4 2011181
Q3 201198
Q2 201194
Q1 2011108
Q4 2010132
Q3 2010109
Q2 201080
Q1 201083
Q4 200992
Q3 2009119
Q2 2009103

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 — 74 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 Q2 2016: This area's Q2 2016 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q2 2016 — 270 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 — West Midlands
74 for Shropshire, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q2 2016; 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/shropshire/planning-permissions

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