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Brownfield Sites

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 7 November 2025UIN 86864

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the number of houses on brownfield land rejected for planning permission since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

My Department publishes the number of planning applications for dwellings granted and refused per quarter by local authority in the PS2 open data file in our quarterly planning application statistics release. It can be found on gov.uk here. The number of applications on brownfield land is not collected.

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