Urban development

The government's national policy statement on urban development requires us to have enough housing, business and industrial land to meet demand. Here you'll find our annual monitoring reports and 3-yearly assessments.

 As part of preparing our 3-yearly assessment, we have to involve the development sector and anyone who has information about our housing and business and industrial land supply. If that’s you or your organisation, please sign up so we can talk to you when we prepare our next assessment.

Urban development capacity indicators

We publish our monitoring reports annually.

Indicators we monitor include:

• the demand for dwellings
• the supply of dwellings
• prices and rents for dwellings
• housing affordability
• available data on business land
• the proportion of housing development capacity that has been realised in urban areas (such as through infill housing or redevelopment) and previously undeveloped land, such as greenfield areas.

Housing and business development capacity