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London Borough of Merton planning intelligence
Local Plan stage, adopted plan, plan period and published housing position for London Borough of Merton, read from the national planning data platform on 20/09/2026.
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Local Plan stage
Adopted
Promote through the next review, or on planning-balance grounds now.
Five-year supply
Data currently unavailable
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Housing Delivery Test
63%
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Annual housing requirement
863homes pa
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Plan-making and delivery position
How favourable is this authority's position for promoting land right now?
- Local Plan progressAdopted
The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.
- Five-year housing land supplyData currently unavailable
No supply statement is published in our sources for this authority.
- Housing Delivery Test63% delivered
Below 75% — the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies.
- Evidence coverage held82%
4 planning documents indexed for this authority.
What does this mean?
Read the plan stage first: allocation routes narrow considerably once a plan reaches examination.
Local Plan stage
Adopted
The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.
Submitting land: Promote through the next review, or on planning-balance grounds now.
Published position
- Local Plan stage
- Adopted
- Adopted development plan
- Local Plan 2024-2038
- Emerging Local Plan
- Data currently unavailable
- Plan period
- 2024 to 2038
- Housing figure in the plan document
- 12,084 homes
- Annual housing requirement
- 863 homes a year
- Five-year housing land supply
- Data currently unavailable
- Housing Delivery Test
- 63%
- Plan documents held nationally
- 4
The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2024-11-20
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2024-11-20
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2026-08-17
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)
Where a figure has not been published in our sources it is shown as data currently unavailable. It is never inferred or estimated.
Development pressure & opportunity outlook
A 0-100 index of how much pressure London Borough of Merton is under to release new land, built only from published evidence, followed by what that evidence means for promoting land here over the next 12-24 months.
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What this means for a landowner
The plan stage tells you whether allocation is still realistically available. Early stages — evidence gathering and Regulation 18 — are when sites are selected, so a Call for Sites submission has the greatest effect. Once a plan reaches Regulation 19 or examination, the practical routes narrow to soundness representations, the next plan review, or an application relying on the authority's land supply position.
The housing figures matter for the same reason. An authority that cannot demonstrate a five-year supply, or that falls below the Housing Delivery Test thresholds, applies the presumption in favour of sustainable development differently — which is what practitioners mean by the tilted balance.
Common questions
- What stage is the London Borough of Merton Local Plan at?
- Adopted. The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.
- Can I still submit land to London Borough of Merton?
- Promote through the next review, or on planning-balance grounds now.
- Can London Borough of Merton demonstrate a five-year housing land supply?
- No five-year housing land supply figure is currently published in our sources for London Borough of Merton, so the position is reported as unavailable rather than assumed.
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This assessment is an automated planning intelligence report based on available public data. It does not constitute planning, legal, valuation or other professional advice and does not guarantee that planning permission will be granted.