Here’s how many new homes your London borough has been told to build
Key Points
- The draft London Plan sets a target of 558,451 new homes across London between 2027/28 and 2036/37.
- Barnet has the highest borough target at 32,730 homes, followed by Ealing on 32,054, Greenwich on 27,850 and Southwark on 27,799.
- Sutton has the lowest borough target at 4,781 homes, with the City of London set 1,716.
- The London-wide total falls short of the government's 850,000-home need figure for the capital.
- Targets are minimums, and boroughs are expected to plan for higher numbers where viability allows.
Every London borough has been handed a ten-year housing target under the draft London Plan, ranging from 1,716 homes to 32,730.
The draft plan, published on 16 July 2026, sets a London-wide total of 558,451 homes for the decade running from 2027/28 to 2036/37. That splits into 502,351 homes on brownfield land and 56,100 on greenfield land released from the Green Belt.
The figure falls short of the 850,000 homes the government has set as London’s housing need, which the plan says would require investment and delivery rates the capital has never achieved.
Barnet carries the largest target at 32,730 homes, with Ealing close behind on 32,054. At the other end, Sutton has the smallest borough target at 4,781, while the City of London is set 1,716.
The full list of targets, with the greenfield portion in brackets where one applies:
- Barnet: 32,730 (7,000)
- Ealing: 32,054
- Greenwich: 27,850
- Southwark: 27,799
- Wandsworth: 26,609
- Newham: 26,260
- Brent: 25,316
- Tower Hamlets: 24,704
- Hillingdon: 24,030 (14,750)
- Havering: 21,712 (12,060)
- Croydon: 21,544 (5,600)
- Enfield: 21,062 (7,000)
- Haringey: 19,030
- Waltham Forest: 19,070
- Hounslow: 17,975
- Hammersmith and Fulham: 16,784
- Lambeth: 16,370
- Redbridge: 16,130 (5,400)
- Merton: 14,272
- Lewisham: 14,052
- Westminster: 12,224
- Camden: 12,085
- Harrow: 12,010 (3,150)
- Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation: 11,335
- Hackney: 10,584
- Barking and Dagenham: 9,698 (1,140)
- Bromley: 7,507
- Kingston upon Thames: 6,872
- Islington: 6,768
- Bexley: 6,217
- Kensington and Chelsea: 5,904
- Richmond upon Thames: 5,397
- Sutton: 4,781
- City of London: 1,716
The targets are minimums rather than caps. The plan states that boroughs are expected to plan positively for higher numbers as viability conditions improve, including towards the 850,000 figure over the longer term.
Boroughs can spread their target evenly across the ten years or use a stepped trajectory that varies the requirement year by year.
The eight authorities with a greenfield component will only be held to their brownfield figure for the first three years, from 2027/28 to 2029/30, because Green Belt sites take longer to bring forward.
Consultation on the draft closes at 17h00 on 15 October. An independent examination follows in 2027, with adoption expected in early 2028.
