Housing, Planning and Local Services
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NI House Condition Survey statistics (NI Housing Executive) | Northern Ireland | Compliance check/rapid review | January - March 2026 |
| Estimates of Housing Need (Welsh Government) | Wales | Compliance check/rapid review | April - September 2025 |
Published Correspondence – Housing, Planning and Local Services domain
Correspondence
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Stephanie Howarth to Ed Humpherson: Affordable housing statistics in Wales
12 November 2025
Stephanie Howarth, Welsh Government to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
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Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Affordable housing statistics in Wales
12 November 2025
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Stephanie Howarth, Welsh Government
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Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Sandra Tudor: Building Safety Remediation Monthly Data Release
3 September 2025
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sandra Tudor, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Stephanie Howarth: Statistics on Council Tax in Wales
16 January 2025
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith, Office for Statistics Regulation to Stephanie Howarth, Welsh Government
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Mark Pont to Sandra Tudor: Compliance Check of Social Housing Lettings in England
19 September 2024
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sandra Tudor, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Publications
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Compliance review of Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release
3 September 2025
Published in: Compliance review
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Election 2024: What to look out for
7 June 2024
Published in: Guidance
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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Statistics on Statutory Homelessness in England
15 December 2021
Published in: Assessment Report
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Assessment Report: Northern Ireland Planning Statistics
7 May 2020
Published in: Assessment Report
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Two-year update: Public Value of Statistics on Housing and Planning in the UK
27 February 2020
Published in: Systemic Reviews
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Statistics from the Welsh Housing Conditions Survey
24 October 2018
Published in: Assessment Report
News & Events
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