New housing in Dacorum Borough Council
We read Dacorum Borough Council's planning register every day. We hold 23,935 of its planning applications going back to 2011, and 32 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 52% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 52% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 23,935
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 10 | 6 |
| 2025 | 39 | 24 | 7 |
| 2024 | 76 | 38 | 23 |
| 2023 | 71 | 33 | 22 |
| 2022 | 62 | 27 | 22 |
| 2021 | 100 | 62 | 19 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 253 | LA3, Land At West Hemel Hempstead Submission of details of all matters reserved pursuant to outline planning permission 4/03266/18/MFA for 253 no. dwellings, car parking, garaging and incidental buildings and the internal roads. Details of appearance… 24/02644/RES | Approved | 21 Nov 2024 |
| 200 | Land South Of Shootersway Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 3TS Screening opinion on residential development for up to 200 dwellings and associated works, with access from Shootersway. 25/00891/SCE | Approved | 2 Apr 2025 |
| 150 | Land North Of Chipperfield Road Kings Langley Herts Outline planning application for the demolition of 36 Chipperfield Road, and the construction of up to 150 residential dwellings including affordable housing (Use Class C3), new vehicular access off Chipperfield Road… 25/00143/MOA | Approved | 22 Jan 2025 |
| 95 | Land West Of Blegberry Gardens Shootersway Berkhamsted Hertfordshire Request for Screening Opinion under Part 2 (6) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended). Construction of 95 dwellings including affordable homes and self-build… 24/01544/SCE | Approved | 8 Jul 2024 |
| 86 | Haresfoot Farm Chesham Road Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 2SU Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment of the site to provide 86 residential units (market and affordable), construction of a community hub building, together with associated landscaping, open space… 24/00330/MFA | Refused | 13 Feb 2024 |
| 30 | Land At Shafford Knoll Farm Lower Road Nash Mills Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 8Rt Outline Planning Application for construction of 30 dwellings (Use Class C3) and (up to) a 70 bed care home (Use Class C2), with new access to Lower Road and pedestrian links to canal tow-path (landscaping reserved). 24/01424/MOA | Refused | 25 Jun 2024 |
| 14 | Windsor Court Corner Hall Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9AW Construction of a part two storey, part single storey extension at roof level to provide 14 residential units. 24/01397/DPA | Approved | 20 Jun 2024 |
| 9 | Tuffs Farm Tower Hill Chipperfield Kings Langley Hertfordshire WD4 9LW Permission in principle for up to nine dwellings 26/01636/PIP | Refused | 27 Jul 2026 |
| 9 | 131 High Street Markyate St Albans Hertfordshire AL3 8JG Demolition of existing commercial premises and redevelopment with 9x residential dwellings and 1x ground floor commercial unit. 24/02297/OUT | Withdrawn | 30 Oct 2024 |
| 7 | Site Of 31 Wood Lane End Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire Redevelopment to provide 7 residential dwellings (Use Class C3); associated landscaping; vehicular parking; cycle parking and refuse storage. 23/02811/FUL | Approved | 24 Nov 2023 |
Fields people have checked here
1 field in Dacorum Borough Council has been checked on Check That Field. These are the fields people chose to look at, not a sample of all the land here.
| Likelihood of being built on | Fields |
|---|---|
| Low | 1 |
| Moderate | 0 |
| High | 0 |
| Very High | 0 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Dacorum Borough Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.