House building, Q1 2015
5 June 2015
There were 1,740 dwellings completed in Buckinghamshire in the year to Q1 2015, representing 0.8 per cent of existing stock. This was the 6th highest rate of growth among the 27 county council areas, ranking 5th among the 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The number of dwellings completed in Buckinghamshire rose for the first time in four years to reach its second highest level in ten years. Of the four Buckinghamshire districts, only Aylesbury Vale and Wycombe bettered the national rate of growth for completed dwellings, with Aylesbury Vale also bettering the national rate for starts. The 1,100 dwellings completed in Aylesbury Vale represented 1.5 per cent of stock, the 6th highest rate of all 326 local authorities in England. If national house building matched Aylesbury Vale’s rate, England would have built 343,207 homes in 2014,exceeding all targets. Aylesbury Vale built almost two thirds (63.2 per cent) of Buckinghamshire’s houses in the last year, having built more than half of the county’s total for the last five years. With 330 houses built, Wycombe recorded its highest quarterly completions in ten years, although annual completions remain below pre-recession levels. Table 1: Dwellings completed and started in the year to Q1 2015 Completions Stock, 2014 No. Rate Rank Aylesbury Vale 74,910 1,100 1.47 6 Chiltern 38,930 60 0.15 306 South Bucks 28,210 120 0.43 194 Wycombe 71,090 470 0.66 109
Starts No. Rate 1,210 1.62 120 0.31 60 0.21 430 0.60
Buckinghamshire BTVLEP Coast to Capital Enterprise M3 Hertfordshire London Northamptonshire Oxfordshire LEP South East Midlands Thames Valley Berkshire England
Rank 11 266 291 158
213,140
1,740
0.82
6
1,820
0.85
8
213,140 849,860 698,160 476,730 3,427,670 305,110 274,670 733,650 358,210
1,750 4,610 4,380 1,860 18,750 2,700 1,730 6,980 2,080
0.82 0.54 0.63 0.39 0.55 0.88 0.63 0.95 0.58
5 21 16 31 20 3 15 2 18
1,820 6,340 5,290 2,320 23,030 3,450 2,550 8,470 2,650
0.85 0.75 0.76 0.49 0.67 1.13 0.93 1.15 0.74
10 16 14 33 19 3 7 2 17
23,372,410
125,610 0.54 - 140,210 0.60 Source: DCLG, 2015 (live tables 100 and 253a)
With 1,100 dwellings completed in the last year, more homes were being built in Aylesbury Vale than in any of the core cities except Leeds (1,500), ahead of Bristol (1,000), Manchester (900), Sheffield (850), Birmingham (660), Newcastle (620), Liverpool (550) and Nottingham (180). The 1,740 completed in Buckinghamshire in the last year was more than in any of the 32 London Boroughs. Across England 125,610 dwellings were completed in the last year, the most in any year since 2009 but still the seventh lowest annual total since 1948 and 28.9 per cent below 2007’s prerecession peak. The number of starts rose 6,210 to 140,210. For the number of dwellings started in 2014, Buckinghamshire ranked 8th among county councils and 10th among LEPs. Starts in Buckinghamshire represented 0.85 per cent of
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existing housing stock, ahead of the 0.60 per cent recorded across England as a whole. To build 200,000 homes per annum, England needs to complete new housing at 0.86 per cent of stock, with 0.86 per cent needed to reach 200,000 per annum, with 0.99 per cent needed to meet the 232,000 annual increase identified in the Government’s Housing Strategy. None of the 39 LEPs met the 0.99 per cent rate for completions but six bettered it for starts, led by the 2.1 per cent recorded in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Table 2: Dwellings completed in years ending Q1 over time
Aylesbury Vale Chiltern South Bucks Wycombe Buckinghamshire BTVLEP Coast to Capital Enterprise M3 Hertfordshire London Northamptonshire Oxfordshire LEP South East Midlands Thames Valley Berksh England
Stock, 2014 74,910 38,930 28,210 71,090
Q1 2012 1,020 180 150 520
Year to Q1 2013 Q1 2014 870 990 270 140 170 110 280 260
Q1 2015 1,100 60 120 470
% 1.5 0.2 0.4 0.7
Rank 6 306 194 109
213,140
1,870
1,580
1,500
1,740
0.8
6
213,140 849,860 698,160 476,730 3,427,670 305,110 274,670 733,650 358,210
1,790 4,120 4,120 2,620 21,250 1,460 1,480 6,080 1,540
1,610 4,740 3,960 2,420 17,780 1,990 1,290 5,850 2,130
1,500 4,810 3,900 2,610 18,010 2,140 1,380 5,870 2,020
1,750 4,610 4,380 1,860 18,750 2,700 1,730 6,980 2,080
0.8 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.9 0.6 1.0 0.6
5 21 16 31 20 3 15 2 18
23,372,410
118,500
107,980
112,400
125,610
0.5
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Source: DCLG, 2015 (live tables 100 and 253a) Table 3: Dwellings started in year ending Q1 over time
Aylesbury Vale Chiltern South Bucks Wycombe Buckinghamshire BTVLEP Coast to Capital Enterprise M3 Hertfordshire London Northamptonshire Oxfordshire LEP South East Midlands England
Stock, 2014 74,910 38,930 28,210 71,090
Q1 2012 930 270 220 330
Year to Q1 2013 Q1 2014 840 1,190 180 100 150 110 350 290
Q1 2015 1,210 120 60 430
% 1.6 0.3 0.2 0.6
Rank 11 266 291 158
213,140
1,760
1,520
1,680
1,820
0.9
8
213,140 849,860 698,160 476,730 3,427,670 305,110 274,670 733,650
1,750 3,800 3,430 2,470 19,940 1,490 1,580 5,390
1,520 3,670 3,750 1,870 17,300 1,790 1,080 5,430
1,690 6,430 4,520 2,430 21,360 2,670 1,850 7,090
1,820 6,340 5,290 2,320 23,030 3,450 2,550 8,470
0.9 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.7 1.1 0.9 1.2
10 16 14 33 19 3 7 2
23,372,410
110,830
103,530
134,000
140,210
0.6
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Source: DCLG, 2015 (live tables 100 and 253a)
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Table 4: Dwellings completed and started by LEP in year to Q1 2015 LEP Stock, 2014 Leicester and Leicestershire 412,950 South East Midlands 733,650 Northamptonshire 305,110 Swindon and Wiltshire 300,870 Buckinghamshire Thames Valley 213,140 Heart of the South West 782,860 Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough 604,150 Solent 685,460 Worcestershire 253,310 Gloucestershire 276,120 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 266,970 The Marches 292,270 Tees Valley 298,520 West of England 476,170 Oxfordshire LEP 274,670 Enterprise M3 698,160 Cheshire and Warrington 408,250 Thames Valley Berkshire 358,210 Greater Lincolnshire 476,280 London 3,427,670 Coast to Capital 849,860 New Anglia 742,480 Cumbria 242,790 Coventry and Warwickshire 378,750 Dorset 352,110 North Eastern 892,660 Lancashire 658,040 South East 1,763,150 Sheffield City Region 770,200 Leeds City Region 1,302,260 Hertfordshire 476,730 Black Country 484,760 D2N2 944,140 Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire 485,050 York and North Yorkshire 523,460 Greater Manchester 1,183,830 Liverpool City Region 688,480 Humber 420,700 Greater Birmingham and Solihull 806,800
Dwellings completed to Q1 2015 No. Rate Rank 3,930 0.95 1 6,980 0.95 2 2,700 0.88 3 2,560 0.85 4 1,750 0.82 5 6,400 0.82 6 4,720 0.78 7 5,270 0.77 8 1,880 0.74 9 1,990 0.72 10 1,880 0.70 11 2,000 0.68 12 2,030 0.68 13 3,140 0.66 14 1,730 0.63 15 4,380 0.63 16 2,450 0.60 17 2,080 0.58 18 2,640 0.55 19 18,750 0.55 20 4,610 0.54 21 3,880 0.52 22 1,260 0.52 23 1,950 0.51 24 1,770 0.50 25 4,450 0.50 26 3,150 0.48 27 8,030 0.46 28 3,480 0.45 29 5,420 0.42 30 1,860 0.39 31 1,880 0.39 32 3,610 0.38 33 1,850 0.38 34 1,940 0.37 35 4,080 0.34 36 2,210 0.32 37 1,350 0.32 38 2,460 0.30 39
Dwellings started to Q1 2015 No. Rate Rank 4,280 1.04 5 8,470 1.15 2 3,450 1.13 3 3,280 1.09 4 1,820 0.85 10 7,090 0.91 8 4,740 0.78 13 4,590 0.67 20 2,290 0.90 9 2,210 0.80 11 5,590 2.09 1 2,950 1.01 6 2,360 0.79 12 3,430 0.72 18 2,550 0.93 7 5,290 0.76 14 2,530 0.62 21 2,650 0.74 17 2,730 0.57 27 23,030 0.67 19 6,340 0.75 16 4,480 0.60 23 1,480 0.61 22 2,840 0.75 15 1,860 0.53 29 5,130 0.57 26 3,970 0.60 24 10,560 0.60 25 3,850 0.50 32 6,770 0.52 31 2,320 0.49 33 2,530 0.52 30 3,960 0.42 36 2,170 0.45 34 2,960 0.57 28 5,260 0.44 35 2,230 0.32 37 1,200 0.29 39 2,550 0.32 38
Source: DCLG, 2015 (live tables 100 and 253a)
Raw data are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house- building
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