From 12 February 2024 a change to the planning system requires that most planning permissions will have to deliver a 10% biodiversity net...

On March 4th the ONS released a statistical bulletin on short-term lets for the July-September quarter. This provides data on those...

In February 2024 the Centre for Cities published a report stating that the UK had a backlog of 4.3 million homes. Since publication the...

1 . Main points Overall, UK household costs, as measured by the Household Costs Index (HCI), rose 5.0% in the year to December 2023, down...

Summary The Competition and Markets Authority has published a report on the housebuilding market in Great Britain. The main points are...

Summary Some supporters of the ‘we must build more houses’ consider that England should emulate France in increasing the house building...

A view over Portreath Much is made by ‘build more houses’ supporters of a lack of housing. Oddly enough though they fail to mention the...

Cornwalls most productive sectors - or are they? Using output data from ONS and workforce data from the 2021 census, it is possible to...

Output, the value of goods and services is either measured using Gross Value Added (GVA) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This article...

Summary Data from the 2021 census shows that a higher proportion of people moving to Cornwall (51.5%) are in the top occupational groups...

Using the 2022 Council tax base figures it is possible to compare the share of empty and second homes in Cornwall with the English...

How many empty homes are there in Cornwall and why are they empty. By empty we mean those which are empty in the true sense of the word...

Using figures from the 2021 census and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), gives a total of 60,000 rented properties in Cornwall. But of...

Assessing what the level of housing need there is, is fraught with issues of definition and measurement. But there are data sets...

There are various figures being quoted as to how much of the Cornish land area is developed or built on. The CEO of Coastline housing in...

The term ‘housing crisis’ is bandied around in the media by politicians, commentators and people on X (formerly known as Twitter). It’s...

Analysis of the land use data provides an insight into the relationship between the residential building area and the total developed...

The ratio between land occupied by residential buildings and the land used as gardens varies across Cornwall. On average the figure is...

There is much in the news about the triple lock and the state pension with some commentators suggesting that the additional cost of...

Data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities(DLUCH} for 2022 suggests that developed land accounts for 6.9% of the...