This was the highest four quarter total on record, while the 610 homes completed in the three months to the end of December was the second highest quarterly total on record.  Starts were also at record levels, with construction beginning on 2,020 new homes, representing 0.9 per cent of stock, bettering the national rate of growth to rank 7th and 6th respectively among counties and LEPs.

Aylesbury Vale has had the 17th highest house building rate of all 326 local authorities in England in the last year, completing 1,260 homes, representing 1.6 per cent of existing stock, and starting 1,480 dwellings (1.9 per cent) to rank 9th.  Since 2010, Aylesbury has increased its housing stock by 7,360, or 10.3 per cent, the 5th highest rate of increase among all 326 local authorities in England.  Only 14 local authorities have built more homes than Aylesbury Vale since 2010 despite it having only the 106th largest housing stock.

In 2017, 64.3 per cent of Buckinghamshire’s new build dwellings were located in Aylesbury Vale, rising to 73.3 per cent of starts. 

Table 1: Dwellings completed and started in the year to Q4 2017

Source: MHCLG, 2018 (live tables 100 & 253a)

At the national level, completions rose 15.9 per cent compared to the previous year, reaching 163,240, higher than the levels seen before 2008’s recession, although still well below the 300,000 identified in 2017’s Autumn Budget.

If national house building matched Buckinghamshire’s rate, 214,300 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, 385,750 homes would have been built in the last year.

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Table 2: Dwellings completed in years ending Q4 over time

Source: MHCLG, 2018 (live tables 100 and 253a)

Table 3: Dwellings started in year ending Q4 over time

Source: MHCLG, 2018 (live tables 100 and 253a)

Table 4: Dwellings completed and started by LEP in year to Q4 2017

Source: DCLG, 2018 (live tables 100 and 255a)