§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the numbers and types of dwelling so far designated under section 1 of the Housing Defects Act 1984 by each local authority.
§ Sir George YoungTwenty-two types of prefabricated reinforced concrete dwellings designed before 1960 have been designated nationally under the housing defects legislation. These are as follows:
- Airey
- Boot
- Cornish Unit
- Dorran
- Dyke
- Gregory
- Myton
- Newland
- Orlit
- Parkinson Frame
- Reema Hollow Panel
- Schindler and Hawksley SGS
- Stent
- Stonecrete
- Tarran
- Underdown
- Unity and Butterley
- Waller
- Wates
- Wessex
- Winget
- Wollaway
Information on the distribution of these types by local authority was obtained in 1983 and I am placing further copies of that material in the Library. My right hon. Friend has also recently designated the Smith house type nationally. We are assembling updated information from local authorities on the numbers of designated houses, including Smith, in both public and private ownership and I shall arrange for this too to be placed in the Library when it is available.
§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the amount of assistance so far committed by each local authority under section 1 of the Housing Defects Act 1984.
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§ Sir George YoungLocal authorities in England have so far reported the following expenditure on providing assistance to eligible home owners under the housing defects legislation:
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£'000 Northern region Blyth Valley 45 Darlington 29 Middlesbrough 6 Newcastle upon Tyne 45 North Tyneside 30 Sedgefield 20 South Tyneside 358 Total 533 Yorkshire and Humberside region Boothferry 27 Bradford 1,478 Calderdale 56 Doncaster 193 East Yorkshire 50 Great Grimsby 413 Harrogate 190 Leeds 70 Ryedale 39 Selby 81 York 941 Total 3,538 East Midlands region Bassetlaw 475 Charnwood 82 Chesterfield 89 Corby 278 Derby 56 Erewash 45 Gedling 321 Kettering 13 Leicester 267 Mansfield 60 Newark 597 Northampton 129 Nottingham 20 Rushcliffe 233 South Holland 38 South Kesteven 37 Wellingborough 16 Total 2,756 Eastern region Aylesbury 114 Babergh 19 Basildon 25 Breckland 105 Brentwood 58 Broxbourne 329 Cambridge 104 Chelmsford 35 Chiltern 816 Colchester 244 Dacorum 116 East Cambridgeshire 39 East Hertfordshire 129 Epping Forest 618 Fenland 60 Great Yarmouth 20 Harlow 26 Huntingdon 174 Kings Lynn 65 Luton 81 Maldon 25 Mid Bedfordshire 270 Mid Suffolk 37 North Hertfordshire 152 38W
£'000 Norwich 22 St. Albans 1,094 St. Edmundsbury 163 South Bedfordshire 27 South Cambridgeshire 258 South Norfolk 79 Southend-on-Sea 208 Stevenage 142 Suffolk Coastal 24 Tendring 100 Three Rivers 470 Waveney 61 Total 6,309 Greater London Region Bexley 59 Camden 399 Croydon 157 Harrow 999 Havering 6,305 Redbridge 178 Southwark 10 Sutton 1,734 Waltham Forest 460 Total 10,301 South East Region Adur 28 Arun 31 Ashford 170 Basingstoke and Deane 2,886 Cherwell 71 Chichester 243 Crawley 147 Eastbourne 916 Eastleigh 388 Fareham 66 Gillingham 13 Gravesham 27 Guildford 26 Hart 296 Havant 155 Mid Sussex 35 New Forest 3 Newbury 138 Portsmouth 449 Reading 2,475 Reigate and Banstead 739 Rochester-on-Medway 329 Rother 24 Sevenoaks 33 Slough 154 South Oxfordshire 38 Southampton 1,385 Surrey Heath 58 Swale 70 Test Valley 1,257 Vale of the White Horse 895 Waverley 134 Wealden 14 Windsor and Maidenhead 93 Wokingham 1,717 Total 15,503 South West Region Bath 47 Bristol 1,738 Cheltenham 75 Cotswold 30 East Devon 255 Exeter 21 Forest of Dean 95 Gloucester 130 Kennet 24
£'000 Kingswood 44 Mendip 362 Mid Devon 238 North Cornwall 164 North Devon 21 North Dorset 19 North Wiltshire 1,256 Northavon 171 Plymouth 1,918 Purbeck 23 Salisbury 150 Sedgemoor 118 South Hams 164 South Somerset 794 Taunton Deane 2,531 Tewkesbury 317 Thamesdown 250 Torridge 13 Wansdyke 121 West Dorset 26 West Somerset 261 West Wiltshire 429 Weymouth and Portland 24 Woodspring 26 Total 11,855 West Midlands Region Birmingham 298 Coventry 160 Dudley 31 East Staffordshire 492 Hereford 1,324 Leominster 57 Lichfield 81 Malvern Hills 1 North Warwickshire 2,229 Oswestry 16 South Herefordshire 24 South Shropshire 45 South Staffordshire 36 Stafford 240 Tamworth 37 The Wrekin 13 Walsall 208 Worcester 119 Wychavon 227 Wyre Forest 301 Total 5,939 North West Region Bolton 52 Bury 121 Congleton 30 Copeland 37 Ellesmere Port 32 Hyndburn 36 Ribble Valley 38 South Ribble 47 Trafford 321 Vale Royal 252 Warrington 19 Wigan 31 Total 1,016 Total-All Regions 57,750
§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the number and type of dwellings designated by each local authority under section 12 of the Housing Defects Act 1984.
§ Sir George YoungLocal designations under section 559 of the Housing Act 1985—previously section 12 of 39W the Housing Defects Act 1984 — have been made by Dudley borough council (for certain dwellings with steel slag, semi-raft foundations), and by Birmingham city council and Nuneaton and Bedworth borough council (for Smith houses with additional foundation defects). The number of houses potentially covered are as follows:
Privately owned Local authority owned Dudley (steel slag etc.) 17 201 Birmingham* 545 979 Dudley (Smith etc.)* 78 284 Sandwell* 326 760 Nuneaton & Bedworth* 53 145 * The figures given are for all Smith houses in each authority's area. The local designation will apply only to those houses actually suffering the foundation defect.