Please note: The data contained below relate to the monitoring of housing development across the city up to to 31 December 2025; 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 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Data will be published quarterly on this page.

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

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 2025 to 31 March 2026 is 1,799 dwellings. Q1, Q2 & Q3 of monitoring year 2025-26 has been completed. Q4 monitoring of year 2025-26 will take place at the end of March. The recorded figures are below;

Q3 2025-26 housing figures:

Completions - 436 (148 Affordable)

Starts - 557 (167 Affordable)

The next monitoring period (Q4) will be undertaken at the end of March 2026.

Monitoring year 2025-26 total housing figures:

Completions - 1,523 (390 Affordable)

Starts - 1,012 (227 Affordable)

Under Construction - 1,072

• Quarterly Housing Starts, Under Construction and Completions - This spreadsheet contains figures on housing starts, under construction and completed each quarter from 1989-2025. It also provides a breakdown per quarter of all unit starts and completions on an annual basis. 

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.

Affordable Housing Monitoring

Affordable Housing Delivery 2023-26- The spreadsheet breaks down data for affordable housing delivery.

C2 Residential Institutions Monitoring

C2 Residential Institutions (Care Homes) - This spreadsheet contains information on all C2 care home applications that have been permitted, are under construction or have completed since 2022. It provides data on the number of bedspaces gained or lost per application.

Monitoring Data By Location (Settlement, Parish & Ward)

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.

Detailed Housing Statistics 

• Housing Statistics - This spreadsheet gives more detailed statistics from 31st March 2022. This is when MKCC introduced a new internal monitoring system. This spreadsheet contains quarterly information on housing tenure, and number of bedrooms for starts and completions.

Historic Data

Historic Housing Statistics 1991-2025 - This spreadsheet contains a breakdown of historic housing statistics from 1991 to 31st March 2025.