Glenigan/ HBF Housing Pipeline Report 

The number of units approved during the third quarter dropped 19% against the previous three months and was also 19% lower than a year ago. The decline was led by a sharp fall in units on private housing projects approved as fewer large residential schemes secured approval. This overshadowed a recovery in the number of social housing units approved. Overall 5% fewer units were approved during the first nine months of 2019 than a year earlier. 

Glenigan recorded the approval of 86,713 residential units[1] during the third quarter of 2019. At 87,306 units, housing schemes of ten or more units accounted for 89% of approved units; the remainder being on smaller new build projects including self-build schemes, homes included within non-residential projects, and the conversion of non-residential properties.

[1]      The range of projects covered by this report has been extended and now includes new build housing projects of all sizes, including schemes of less than 10 units, the conversion of non-residential buildings and residential units on mixed use developments.

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Notes:

• The Home Builders Federation (HBF) is the representative body of the home building industry in England and Wales. The HBF’s member firms account for some 80% of all new homes built in England and Wales in any one year, and include companies of all sizes, ranging from multi-national, household names through regionally based businesses to small local companies: www.hbf.co.uk
• Glenigan is the UK’s leading provider of construction data, contract leads and construction market analysis. Combining comprehensive data gathering and exhaustive research with detailed statistical modelling and expert analysis, it delivers a trusted insight into UK construction trends and activity.
• The housing approvals data analysed in this report is drawn from Glenigan’s extensive database of current and planned construction projects. Glenigan’s detailed coverage of planned housing projects across the UK offers valuable strategic and tactical insights into developers’ active sights and pipeline, with sites tracked through to completion. www.glenigan.com
• ‘Permissions’ are measured when the first ‘reserve matter’ attached to the consent is approved. Before an ‘implentable’ permissions is granted that allows work to start on site, a planning obligations (S106) agreement will almost always have to be agreed and signed and all pre-commencement planning conditions attached to the permission have to be discharged. Some permissions will have up to 100 conditions attached.