HC Deb 22 January 1985 vol 71 cc357-60W
Mr. Pike

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the number of housing units regarded as difficult to let possessed by each housing authority in England; and if he will indicate what percentage these figures represent of the council-owned housing stock in each case.

Sir George Young

Local authorities' 1984 housing investment programme returns included, for 1 April, numbers of the dwellings that they owned within their own areas, which they classed as difficult to let. Numbers reported are not necessarily comparable as authorities' criteria may differ. No dwellings were reported difficult to let by 161 authorities; the figures for the other authorities are as follows:

Local Authorities' Difficult to Let Dwellings 1 April 1984
Local Authority Number Per cent. of LIA's stock
North, excluding Cumbria
Hartlepool 200 1.74
Langbaurgh 950 5.37
Middlesborough 370 2.03
Stockton-on-Tees 1,275 6.67
Chester-le-Street 85 1.12
Durham 334 2.87
Easington 44 0.23
Sedgefield 306 1.91
Teesdale 10 0.75
Wear Valley 522 6.29

Local Authority Number Per cent. of LIA's stock
Alnwick 136 4.23
Blyth Valley 305 3.01
Wansbeck 591 6.13
Gateshead 2,771 7.55
Newcastle upon Tyne 3,914 8.23
North Tyneside 4,274 14.47
South Tyneside 939 2.99
Sunderland 3,794 8.14
Yorks & Humberside
Beverley 85 1.53
Great Grimsby 700 8.29
Holderness 51 1.96
Kingston upon Hull 810 1.73
Scunthorpe 350 3.71
Scarborough 650 8.59
York 657 6.05
Barnsley 6,625 20.67
Doncaster 7,545 21.62
Rotherham 2,500 7.09
Sheffield 5,200 5.66
Bradford 1,550 4.15
Calderdale 1,056 6.50
Kirklees 3,000 8.31
Leeds 7,058 7.43
Wakefield 3,053 6.72
East Midlands
Amber Valley 20 0.26
Bolsover 214 2.46
Chesterfield 384 2.76
Derby 2,489 11.62
Erewash 527 6.02
High Peak 540 8.46
North East Derbyshire 184 1.63
Leicester 3,884 11.21
Melton 20 0.70
Boston 60 1.01
East Lindsey 165 2.69
Lincoln 600 5.65
North Kesteven 158 2.97
South Holland 436 7.63
South Kesteven 24 0.26
West Lindsey 132 2.60
Corby 315 2.95
Kettering 10 0.16
Northampton 395 3.22
South Northamptonshire 6 0.12
Ashfield 890 7.90
Bassetlaw 146 1.43
Broxtowe 266 3.75
Gedling 169 2.80
Mansfield 905 8.52
Newark 180 2.13
Nottingham 2,332 4.37
Eastern
Chiltern 54 1.00
Milton Keynes 6 0.08
East Cambridgeshire 73 1.43
Fenland 160 2.86
Basildon 450 7.58
Castle Point 7 0.28
Chelmsford 74 0.73
Epping Forest 373 3.72
Harlow 500 2.72
Maldon 64 2.44
Thurrock 400 2.51
Dacorum 416 2.43
Hertsmere 173 2.12
Stevenage 334 2.29
Breckland 142 1.79
Broadland 12 0.30
Norwich 1,728 7.25
South Norfolk 75 1.22

Local Authority Number Per cent. of LIA's stock
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 246 2.47
Babergh 56 1.03
Forest Heath 10 0.20
St. Edmundsbury 373 3.97
Suffolk Coastal 56 0.90
Waveney 6 0.09
Greater London
Greater London Council 10,300 23.41
Barking and Dagenham 3,000 8.90
Barnet 326 1.75
Bexley 36 0.31
Brent 5,000 23.06
Camden 4,750 14.07
Croydon 860 4.17
Ealing 1,000 4.82
Enfield 1,261 6.14
Greenwich 7,000 18.86
Hackney 6,500 14.26
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,819 9.50
Haringey 1,550 6.39
Havering 800 4.64
Hounslow 3,500 17.92
Islington 6,600 16.23
Kensington and Chelsea 502 5.66
Kingston upon Thames 89 1.29
Lambeth 18,000 37.00
Lewisham 7,000 16.59
Newham 396 1.29
Redbridge 590 5.05
Richmond upon Thames 1,100 11.76
Southwark 14,000 22.41
Tower Hamlets 2,500 13.13
Waltham Forest 3,347 16.11
Wandsworth 7,575 20.38
South Eastern
Reading 202 2.00
Slough 5 0.05
Windsor and Maidenhead 149 1.88
Wokingham 28 0.77
Brighton 460 3.99
Eastbourne 349 6.71
Hove 95 2.08
Rother 177 4.17
New Forest 159 2.12
Portsmouth 606 3.99
Ashford 445 4.97
Canterbury 72 0.97
Dover 600 7.42
Maidstone 284 3.08
Sevenoaks 250 3.19
Swale 600 6.73
Cherwell 150 1.71
Oxford 55 0.63
South Oxfordshire 174 2.17
Vale of the White Horse 15 0.22
Elmbridge 536 8.84
Guildford 80 1.03
Adur 219 5.33
Mid Sussex 137 2.68
Worthing 8 0.24
South West
Woodspring 300 3.14
East Devon 11 0.18
Plymouth 8 0.4
Christchurch 211 11.59
Cotswold 20 0.37
Forest of Dean 12 0.21
Stroud 85 1.09
Tewkesbury 194 4.47
Sedgemoor 150 2.17
Taunton Dene 623 7.12
North Wiltshire 11 0.14

Local Authority Number Per cent. of LIA's stock
Salisbury 2 0.02
Thamesdown 607 4.13
West Midlands
Leominster 57 2.64
Malvern Hills 200 3.52
Redditch 284 7.61
Worcester 630 9.51
Wyre Forest 302 3.78
North Shropshire 264 7.15
Shrewsbury and Atcham 335 4.68
South Shropshire 84 4.28
The Wrekin 300 2.60
Cannock Chase 1,085 12.29
Lichfield 150 2.26
Stafford 300 3.48
Stoke-on-Trent 2,000 6.81
Tamworth 271 3.28
North Warwickshire 40 0.80
Nuneaton and Bedworth 267 2.76
Stratford-on-Avon 30 0.39
Warwick 162 1.98
Birmingham 18,000 14.31
Coventry 4,484 17.36
Dudley 778 2.08
Sandwell 2,167 3.83
Solihull 378 2.20
Walsall 6,400 16.32
Wolverhampton 3,400 8.29
North West, including Cumbria
Chester 810 9.19
Crewe and Nantwich 215 2.46
Halton 538 5.42
Macclesfield 503 5.69
Warrington 1,236 9.26
Allerdale 352 5.27
Copeland 220 3.25
Blackburn 2,749 19.31
Burnley 1,560 21.05
Chorley 586 13.47
Hyndburn 22 0.47
Lancaster 541 9.65
Pendle 1,132 21.06
Preston 548 4.69
Rossendale 2,800 45.66
West Lancashire 91 2.40
Bolton 2,275 8.66
Bury 210 1.78
Manchester 20,137 24.81
Oldham 2,066 7.76
Rochdale 5,037 22.59
Salford 7,079 16.44
Stockport 1,650 9.78
Tameside 1,174 5.50
Trafford 955 6.66
Wigan 5,329 15.42
Knowsley 2,196 8.16
Liverpool 23,020 35.38
St. Helens 450 2.18
Sefton 2,773 15.03
Wirral 850 3.37