Please note: The data contained within the below documents relates to the monitoring of housing development across the borough up to to 30 June 2024; they do not form the council's position on future projected completions, nor the council's assessment of five-year housing land supply.

Every quarter site visits are conducted on all applications where a new dwelling is proposed. The progress of these sites are noted on a plot by plot basis and recorded on the Council's monitoring system. Reports and spreadsheets are then produced, some of which are reported to DLUHC, and published on the Council's Yearly Housing Statistics page.

Data will be published quarterly on this page.

The reporting of data from Quarter 2 of the 2023-24 monitoring year has been reported differently to previous years. Provisional figures have been collected and published on this page. Please check this page for updates.

The monitoring year runs from 1 April to 31 March and contains four quarters.

Permitted developments

All applications that include a new dwelling (including change of use (COU) and conversions) are monitored from submission to decision. The following spreadsheets show you the decisions made on these applications.

• Status of Housing Applications - This spreadsheet shows all applications and their decisions over each monitoring year (1 April - 31 March).
• Housing Mix of Permitted Developments - All Developments - This spreadsheet shows the bedroom mix of all the permitted developments by monitoring year. It covers years from 2019/20 up to the present quarter and also gives details of the tenure split for each development (developer sale and affordable housing).
• Housing Mix of Permitted Developments - Major Developments - This more detailed spreadsheet gives details of the tenure split for each development (developer sale and affordable housing)along with a further split to sub-tenure of the affordable housing. Self and custom-build applications are also monitored here as is the monitoring of building control policy M4.
• Prior Notifications Permitted by Quarter - This spreadsheet shows all the permitted prior notification applications. Unlike planning permission and other consents, prior notification is a procedure whereby a developer must notify the planning authority of proposals before exercising permitted development rights. It is very important to keep a record of these developments as too many in one location (especially Central Milton Keynes) can result in the loss of too much office or retail space.
• HiMO Applications - This spreadsheet shows the outcome of planning applications for Houses in Multiple Occupation over the monitoring year.

Quarterly monitoring

Housing starts and completions in Milton Keynes are monitored quarterly. A 'start' is a plot that the developer has started to build and a 'completion' is a plot that the developer has finished building (the plot may not have reached legal completion).

The council's housing requirement for the monitoring year 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 is 1,728 dwellings. The first 2 quarters (Q1 & Q2) of monitoring year 2024-25 have been completed. The second monitoring quarter took place at the end of September. The recorded figures are below;

Monitoring year 2024-25 up to Q2 housing figures:

Completions - 1177 (216 Affordable)

Starts - 961 (405 Affordable)

The next monitoring period (Q3) will be undertaken at the end of December 2024.

Figures from the monitoring year 2023-24 are provisional overall figures. Due to technical issues more detailed information is currently unavailable at this time but will be published soon. For 2023-25 Affordable Housing delivery please see Affordable Housing Delivery 2023-25, please note all other spreadsheets do not contain 2023-23 data. Please check back for further updates. 

• Affordable Housing Delivery 2023-25- The spreadsheet breaks down data for affordable housing delivery for the years 2023-25.
• Housing Starts and Completions 2023-25 - The spreadsheet provides a breakdown on the housing starts and completions by area in Milton Keynes.
• Housing Statistics 1991-2024 - This spreadsheet gives the statistics from 1991 up to 2024.  This includes starts and completions for all years.

Further monitoring data

The following spreadsheets contain information that may be of interest.

Figures from the monitoring year 2023-24 are provisional overall figures. Due to technical issues more detailed information is currently unavailable at this time. For the annual start and completions figures please see Starts and Completions by Settlement 2023-25, please note Starts and Completions by Parish and Starts and Completions by Ward spreadsheets do not contain 2023-25 data. Please check back for further updates.

• Starts and Completions by settlement 2023 - 2025 - This spreadsheet gives information on the starts and completions over a rolling 4 quarter period.
• Starts and Completions by Parish - This spreadsheet breaks down the starts and completions data into parishes.
• Starts and Completions by Ward - This spreadsheet breaks down the starts and completions data into wards.