Which Guernsey parishes are building the most housing?
New dwellings and demolish-and-rebuilds across 2,103 applications on the register — the work that adds or replaces housing stock, as opposed to extensions, boundary walls and re-roofing. Where a parish is building, the schools, surgeries and roads around it carry the load, so this is worth reading next to what is actually nearby.
| Parish | New-build & rebuild applications | All applications | Share that is new build | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Peter Port | 468 | 1,833 | 25.5% | 90% |
| Vale | 310 | 1,077 | 28.8% | 93% |
| St Sampson | 296 | 897 | 33.0% | 91% |
| Castel | 292 | 916 | 31.9% | 96% |
| St Martin | 271 | 790 | 34.3% | 96% |
| St Saviour | 127 | 398 | 31.9% | 96% |
| St Pierre du Bois | 117 | 390 | 30.0% | 90% |
| St Andrew | 92 | 299 | 30.8% | 96% |
| Forest | 76 | 252 | 30.2% | 87% |
| Torteval | 54 | 151 | 35.8% | 90% |
An application, not a completed house. Some are granted and never built, some cover several dwellings on one site, and the register does not state a unit count — so read this as where the development pressure is, not a housing-completion figure. "New build" is inferred from each application's own wording, so a minority will be classified differently than a human reader would. Torteval's high share (36%) sits on a small base — the absolute count matters more than the percentage in the smaller parishes.