All County and Unitary Authorities within the region achieved a land recycling rate above the RPG 50% target, during 2007/08, compared with 75% in the period 2004/05 (SWRA 2008). Completions on allocated non-PDL are increasing at a faster rate than completions on allocated PDL.
73% of all new build in the South West was built on PDL in 2007/08, which represents a rate that has been fairly steady since 2003 (SWRA 2008). Levels of provision on PDL before this period were much lower with just over 30% of all completions being located on brownfield sites in 1996.