There were 1,850 dwellings completed in Buckinghamshire in the year to the end of March 2017, representing 0.9 per cent of existing stock, the 8th highest house building rate among both the 27 county councils and the 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships.
This was the highest four quarter total since 2011 and the third highest since 2005, well above pre-recession levels.
Aylesbury Vale had the 19th highest house building rate of all 326 local authorities in England in the last year, completing 1,170 homes or 1.5 per cent of stock. Since the start of 2010, Aylesbury Vale has seen the completion of 7,060 homes or 9.9 per cent of stock in 2010, the 5th highest house building rate of any local authority in England and more than double the national rate of house building.
Table 1: Dwellings completed and started in the year to Q1 2017
Source: DCLG, 2017 (live tables 100 & 253a)
The 1,850 homes built in Buckinghamshire in the last year was more than that built in any of the Core Cities and all but three of the 32 London Boroughs. Aylesbury Vale alone built more in the last year than Sheffield (1,090), Newcastle (840), Bristol (780), Liverpool (770), Birmingham (690), Manchester (470) and Nottingham (460).
At the national level, while completions rose 2.0 per cent compared to the previous year to 141,680, starts rose 14.0 per cent to 161,620. Despite these increases, national house building on both measures remains below pre-recession levels. In Buckinghamshire, houses are being built at a record level, with completions in the last year being 10.4 per cent above completions in the year to Q1 2008, and more than doubling in Aylesbury Vale (rising 103.5 per cent) over the same period.
If national house building matched Buckinghamshire’s rate 202,274 homes would have been built in the last year, equating to more than a million over a Parliament. If England had matched Aylesbury Vale’s rate 358,195 homes would have been built in the last year.
The raw data are available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building
Table 2: Dwellings completed in years ending Q1 over time
Source: DCLG, 2017 (live tables 100 and 253a)
Table 3: Dwellings started in year ending Q4 over time
Source: DCLG, 2017 (live tables 100 and 253a)
Table 4: Dwellings completed and started by LEP in year to Q1 2017
Source: DCLG, 2017 (live tables 100 and 253a)
