Land use change statistics
This collection brings together all documents relating to land use change statistics.
The land use change statistics present information on new residential addresses and changes in hectarage.
‘Land use change – new residential addresses’ provides information on new residential addresses and the previous land use those addresses were created on. Information is also provided on the proportion of new residential addresses located within certain areas of interest such as the Green Belt, Flood Zones and other similar ‘designations’. Explore the data using the ‘Land use change – new residential addresses’ interactive dashboard.
‘Land use change – hectarage’ provides information on the amount of land changing use from previous use to its new use. These changes are recorded to and from a set of 28 land use categories. Explore the data using the ‘Land use change – hectarage’ interactive dashboard.
The methodology used to produce land use change statistics changed in 2015. Guidance detailing these changes can be found in Land use change statistics: methodology changes guidance.
The department also publishes Land use statistics with the release and tables showing the amount of land within each individual land use category at national and local levels.
Feedback
On 31 May 2019, we published a consultation paper on proposed changes to the department’s land use change statistics. We published our response to the consultation on 16 July 2020.
Land use change: new residential addresses
Land use change: hectarage
Guidance and methodology notes
A copy of the land use and land use change technical notes are included within each publication.
Archived publications
Updates to this page
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The land use change statistics landing page has been separated into two sections; new residential addresses and hectarage.
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Added Land use change statistics: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022.
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Updated to reflect the published response to the consultation on proposed changes to the department’s land use change statistics.
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Added land use change statistics 2017 to 2018.
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Land use change statistics 2016 to 2017 added.
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Added land use change statistics in England and live tables for2013 to 2014. Also added quality assurance assessment.
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Land use change statistics England: provisional estimates for 2011.
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First published.