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New dwellings granted permission — South West — Somerset

125, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 125 in Q1 2026. That is 23.8% lower than a year earlier. The series peaked at 176 in Q3 2025; the latest figure is 29.0% below that peak. Its low point was 117 in Q4 2023; the latest reading is 7% above that.

Show the numbers (12 periods)
New dwellings granted permission — South West, every published period
PeriodValue
Q1 2026125
Q4 2025165
Q3 2025176
Q2 2025149
Q1 2025164
Q4 2024150
Q3 2024142
Q2 2024129
Q1 2024151
Q4 2023117
Q3 2023122
Q2 2023138

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 — 125 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 2025: This area's Q4 2025 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q4 2025 — 165 against a typical figure (median) of about 17 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
125 for Somerset, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q4 2025; 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/somerset/planning-permissions

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