Housing, Planning and Local Services

Last updated on Friday 13 September 2024

Our Housing, Planning and Local Services domain oversees statistics on topics, including: house building; household estimates and projections; homelessness and rough sleeping; housing need and demand; land stock, use and development; and local authority planning. It also covers information on local services such as fire and rescue services.

During 2024/25, we will use our regulatory tools to drive improvements for specific outputs including accredited and official statistics and wider forms of data, using compliance checks and rapid reviews to build public trust in new and emerging sources. This includes ensuring the compliance of existing accredited and official statistics and potential reviews of emerging data sources of public value beyond official statistics. This will include promoting the voluntary application of the Code to key producers outside of the official statistics community.

We will continue to work with statistics producers to drive ambitious developments to close data gaps and support society’s key information needs, while ensuring the effective communication of statistics and uncertainty. We will also work with producers to build public trust in new metrics for key policy decisions across the UK; encourage government analysts to collaborate and bring sources together to enhance the value of statistical insights; and share examples of best practice between statistics producers.

Our planned regulatory work will focus on the themes of: Private and social sector rents; Housing need and demand; Housing market; Local authority data, finance and council tax; Building safety; and Housing stock, conditions and efficiency.

Contact our regulators for this domain for more information: regulation@statistics.gov.uk

Planned Work

Project	Geography	Project Type	Timescale
Social Housing Letting in England (Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government)	England	Compliance check/rapid review	April - September 2024
Estimates of Housing Need (Welsh Government)	Wales	Compliance check/rapid review	April - September 2024
Building Safety Programme Monthly Data Release (Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government)	England	Compliance check/rapid review	October 2024 - March 2025
Council Tax levels and dwellings (Welsh Government)	Wales	Compliance check/rapid review	October 2024 - March 2025
Council Tax statistics (Scottish Government)	Scotland	Compliance check/rapid review	October 2024 - March 2025
NI House Condition Survey statistics (NI Housing Executive)	Northern Ireland	Compliance check/rapid review	October 2024 - March 2025