New dwellings granted permission — East of England — Southend-on-Sea

10, latest Q1 2026.

The count stood at 10 in Q1 2026. That is 60.0% lower than a year earlier. The series peaked at 232 in Q4 1988; the latest figure is 95.7% below that peak. Its low point was 6 in Q3 2009; the latest reading is 67% 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 Q4 1987: This area's Q4 1987 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q4 1987 — 215 against a typical figure (median) of about 34 across 255 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 — East of England
10 for Southend-on-Sea, Q1 2026
Caveats: Unusually high in Q4 1987; 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/southend-on-sea/planning-permissions

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