New housing in Spelthorne Borough Council
We read Spelthorne Borough Council's planning register every day. We hold 13,466 of its planning applications going back to 2000, and 59 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 33% 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
- 33% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 13,466
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 | 53 | 18 | 11 |
| 2025 | 68 | 36 | 25 |
| 2024 | 57 | 32 | 21 |
| 2023 | 94 | 48 | 39 |
| 2022 | 79 | 35 | 38 |
| 2021 | 82 | 48 | 28 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 507 | Land At Sunbury Golf Club Charlton Lane Shepperton TW17 8QA Outline planning application for reprofiling of the land to support a phased mixed-use development comprising up to 507 residential dwellings (including affordable housing); a Class C2 care home up to 3,230 sqm and… 26/00822/OUT | Decided | 11 Sept 2026 |
| 158 | Land East Of Vicarage Road Vicarage Road Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 7LB Erection of 158 residential units (Use Class C3) including affordable housing with public realm, open space, landscaping, car parking and cycle parking facilities, SuDS infrastructure including attenuation basin… 26/00948/FUL | Decided | 24 Sept 2026 |
| 104 | Land To The East Of WR Sports Club Woodthorpe Road Ashford TW15 3JX Outline planning permission (all matters reserved except access) for the development of up to 104 dwellings (C3) (including 50% affordable), including the provision of vehicular and pedestrian access, landscaping and… 26/00745/OUT | Decided | 20 Aug 2026 |
| 80 | Bugle Nurseries Upper Halliford Road Shepperton TW17 8SN Outline application with approval sought for partial approval of access (highway access and primary estate road), with details of access (secondary estate roads), scale, layout, appearance and landscaping reserved, for… 24/01452/OUT | Approved | 6 Dec 2024 |
| 40 | Land South Of Nursery Road Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6LX Outline Application (with all matters reserved except access) for the development of up to 40 dwellings on Land South of Nursery Road, Sunbury-on-Thames. 26/00121/OUT | Decided | 27 Feb 2026 |
| 35 | 5-7 & 9 Station Approach & 21 Woodthorpe Road Ashford TW15 2QN Demolition of existing office buildings, and construction of 35 new residential units together with Class E (Commercial, Business and Service), associated amenity and parking. 24/01089/FUL | Approved | 9 Sept 2024 |
| 26 | Land Rear Of 38 To 80 Coppermill Road Wraysbury Staines Upon Thames Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead consultation for outline planning application for access, appearance, layout and scale only to be considered at this stage with all other matters to be reserved, for the erection… 24/01479/MIS | Awaiting decision | 11 Dec 2024 |
| 25 | Manor Farm 126 Charlton Road Shepperton Reserved matters application pursuant to outline application 22/00483/OUT (appeal: app/z3635/w/23/3319062) seeking approval of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of 25 dwellings 26/00928/RMA | Decided | 3 Sept 2026 |
| 14 | Development Site At Former Two Rivers Bar And Restaurant 43 Church Street Staines-upon-Thames TW18 4EN Redevelopment of site to provide 1no. four storey building with side wing extension comprising commercial floorspace at ground floor level (230m2) (Class E use) and 14no. residential dwellings contained within upper… 25/01514/FUL | Refused | 14 May 2026 |
| 14 | Crownage Court 99 Staines Road West Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 7FG Provision of a rooftop extension to provide 14 apartments (resubmission of PA 21/01742/FUL) 24/00170/FUL | Approved | 29 Feb 2024 |
Towns and villages
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Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Spelthorne 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.