§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what processes his Department adopts to monitor the amount of residential building land currently available and capable of immediate development.
§ Mr. WaldegraveMy Department obtains information from local planning authorities about the amount of residential land with outstanding planning permission, indicating whether the permission is outline only or full permission. Most of the latter is likely to be available for immediate development.
§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give, on a county to county basis, the amount of underdeveloped building land currently benefiting from outline planning consent expressed in acres or hectares.
§ Mr. WaldegraveReturns from local authorities indicate that the area of land with planning permission for residential development in March 1986 was as set out in the following table:
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Area of land (in hectares) with planning permission for private sector residential development at March 1986 County Basis of return Outline permission Full permission Avon L 126 356 Bedfordshire L 114 41 Berkshire M 412 566 Buckinghamshire M 206 190 Cambridgeshire L 193 213 Cheshire A 383 424 Cleveland M 386 164 Cornwall M 290 194 Cumbria M 95 155 Derbyshire M 399 454 Devon M 282 495 Dorset M 197 211 Durham M 153 179 East Sussex (E) L 212 221 Essex M 445 600 Gloucestershire L 69 239 Hampshire A 562 1,072 Hereford and Worcestershire M 177 208 Hertfordshire A 158 134 Humberside M 316 291 Isle of Wight L 13 28 Kent (E) A 454 2,110 Lancashire M 207 327 Leicestershire M 198 159 Lincolnshire M 242 424 Norfolk M 233 510 North Yorkshire L 171 234
County Basis of return Outline permission Full permission Northamptonshire M 336 279 Northumberland (E) A 134 156 Nottinghamshire M 192 303 Oxfordshire A 202 343 Shropshire (E) A 188 220 Somerset A 214 271 Staffordshire M 496 291 Suffolk M 362 245 Surrey (E) A 323 443 Warwickshire A 106 190 West Sussex A 147 141 Wiltshire L 236 132 Greater Manchester M 369 422 Merseyside (E) M 219 251 South Yorkshire M 163 343 Tyne and Wear A 77 99 West Midlands M 277 187 West Yorkshire M 230 452 London (E) L 84 111 These figures are based on returns from districts. They include estimates for non response where necessary. Where a whole county has not responded, this is shown by a letter (E).
Returns are not all made on the same basis. In some counties all districts make returns for all sites (a), in others returns relate to sites more than 10 dwellings (L). M denotes where there is a mixture of returns.