Property: Cambridgeshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of new (a) residential and (b) commercial properties that have been built in Cambridgeshire since 2001.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply. This includes estimates of net additional homes in each local authority and county, including Cambridgeshire, in each financial year, from 2001-02 to 2023-24, as well as by component flows (including the number of new build homes) from 2012-13 to 2023-24. This data can be found in Live Table 122 and Live Table 123 on gov.uk here.
The Department also publishes a quarterly release entitled ‘Housing supply: Indicators of New Supply, England’, which includes more timely estimates of new build starts and completions in England, and in each local authority district. Statistics from the quarter ending March 2005 to the quarter ending December 2024 can be found in Table 253a on gov.uk here. This dataset covers new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply.
Data on the number of commercial properties built in any particular period is not held by the Department.
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