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Public Land for Housing programme 2015 to 2020: concluding summary report

The closure report for the Public Land for Housing programme covering land release and build out data as at March 2020.

From:
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Published
1 September 2022

Applies to England

Documents

Public Land for Housing programme 2015 to 2020: concluding summary report

PDF, 740 KB, 30 pages

Public Land for Housing programme 2015 to 2020: annexes C, D and E

ODS, 337 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

The Public Land for Housing programme 2015-20 aimed to release land from the central government estate for 160,000 homes by the end of March 2020 supporting the government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.

This concluding summary report outlines:

  • progress made by departments on release of surplus land for homes since 2015, up to the end of the second Public Land for Housing programme, at the end of March 2020
  • information on progress on building homes on 1,625 sites across England disposed of through both the 2011-15 (PLHP1) and 2015-20 (PLHP2) Public Land for Housing programmes by the end of March 2020
  • build out data and land release data correct as of 31 March 2020
Published 1 September 2022

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