FOI release

Housing Development Delays

Case reference EIR2025/00698

Received 8 August 2025

Published 22 August 2025

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following data regarding delayed housing developments in Britain: Please provide a list of housing developments in the area covered by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council that have experienced delays in completion during the period 1 January 2020 to 31st July 2025. For each delayed development, please provide the following: * Name and/or address/location of the development * Planning application reference number * Originally expected completion date * Actual or most recent known completion date (if completed or ongoing) * Status (e.g. not started, in progress, paused, abandoned, completed late) * Any available reason(s) recorded for the delay If possible, please provide the data in spreadsheet format (CSV or XLSX). If this data is not held by the council, I kindly ask that you redirect me to other potential sources.

Response

The Councils planning department determines planning applications in accordance with the Development Plan as required by Section 38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and section 70(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the National Planning Policy Framework.

Decisions are made and include a requirement that developments the subject of planning permission are started within 3 years to comply with the requirements of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

There is no such requirement that developers provide a detailed timeframe for completion, as such the Council holds no such data on a site by site basis.

Detailed monitoring of Housing delivery is undertaken by the Council and this published in the Authority Monitoring Report which is online here:- https://tunbridgewells.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/495237/Authority-Monitoring-Report-2023-24.pdf

Documents

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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.