Housing, Planning and Local Services

The Housing, Planning and Local Services theme includes statistics on current housing (e.g. house building, housing stock, housing by different tenure types, house prices, housing conditions), household estimates and projections, homelessness, housing requirements and commercial, industrial, retail and residential planning. The theme also covers information on local services such as fire and rescue services.

Recent activity includes:

Publishing our compliance checks of Wales Homelessness Statistics and Scotland Homelessness Statistics.

Publishing our report on the public value of statistics on housing and planning in the UK, our public follow up response, our welcoming the publication of a collaborative work programme for these statistics, and most recently our blog on improving the value of Housing and Planning statistics in the UK.

Confirming National Statistics designation of Statistics from the Welsh Housing Conditions Survey, the UK House Price Index Statistics, and the Northern Ireland House Price Index Statistics.

Following up on our Assessments of Statistics on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping in England and Statistics on Traveller Caravans.

Conducting a compliance check of Statistics on Housing in England, and confirming a forthcoming compliance check of Statistics on Household Projections in England.

Correspondence on: Rough sleeping statistics in England, Statistics on Housing in England, and Estimates of Leasehold Dwellings in England.

Contact:  Gemma Keane