§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his Department's latest estimate of available housing land broken down by region and estimated in terms of the number of properties.
§ Mr. BaldryThe information requested is not available.
The Department does collect information on land in England with outstanding planning permission for residential development, which represents one component of land available for housing. The latest results, for 1991–92, relate to private sector development only and were published in "Development Control Statistics: England 1991–92" which is available in the Library. The table, showing the area of land with planning permission for private housing development in each region of England, and the corresponding number of dwellings, is taken from that publication.
Since 1992, the Department has collected information on outstanding planning permissions for all residential development in England, public as well as private sector. The 1992–93 results will be published by the Department this summer in "Development Control Statistics: England 1992–93".
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1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Region Dwellings Area Dwellings Area Dwellings Area England 807.8 32.4 2813.9 233.7 805.6 32.8 of which: Metropolitan Districts and Greater London 154.7 24.7 2152.5 24.8 151.8 4.5 Non-Metropolitan Districts 653.1 227.7 2661.4 228.9 653.8 28.3 1 All figures are estimates based on available figures for 92.3 per cent, of English local authorities in 1989–90, 94.8 per cent, in 1990–91 and 91.3 per cent, in 1991–92. 2 Figures refer to the stock of sites with outstanding planning permission at the end of each financial year.