New housing in Lancaster City Council
We don't read Lancaster City Council's planning register yet, so reports on fields here rely on national data: Green Belt, flood zones, protected land, farmland quality and how close a field is to a town or village.
Lancaster City Council can show only 2.0 years of housing land against the 5 required (as of 1 Apr 2026). National policy treats that as an unmet need for housing, which makes it easier to get permission for homes on land well related to its towns and villages.
It delivered 48% 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.
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Key facts
- Local Plan
- Local Plan (Climate Emergency Review), adopted 22 Jan 2025 (adopted; new plan at scoping).
- Five-year housing land supply
- 2.0 years
- Housing Delivery Test
- 48% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- 318 allocations and sites put forward for development
- Planning applications we hold
- 35
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
- Local Plan: Lancaster City Council.
- Housing land supply: Lancaster City Council's published statement.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.