UK housing supply - new build

This chart shows the number of finished new houses in the UK each year for the 14 years from 1997 to 2010.  I will try to find figures from 1970 to 1996.  The figures include private building (housebuilding companies and self-builders) together with 'registered social landlords' and 'local authorities'. The latter two builders made up around 25,000 of the total in each of the last two years.  Adding the years together shows that there have been an additional 2.64m new houses in the UK over the period. Around 250,000 of these were social landlords and local authorities. The number of demolitions seems to be around 16,000 to 22,000 per year in the later years (ONS housing stock survey Dec 2010) and - with additions from change of use and conversions - there are about another 10,000 homes per year on top of these new build completions.

The total number of new homes in this period is therefore estimated at about 2.78m.