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Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 83202 · Tabled 17 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 3 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his Department's housing targets are per square mile in (a) Dorset, (b) West Dorset constituency and (c) England.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 3 Nov 2025

Local housing need is expressed as a total number of dwellings for each local authority area. It is not broken down as a proportion of the population, nor as a proportion of available brownfield land or per square mile.