HC Deb 24 January 1967 vol 739 cc227-8W
Mr. John Hall

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what at the latest convenient date is the average cost per house of a three-bedroomed semidetached built by local authorities in England and Wales; and what he estimates will be the additional cost per house of building to the standards laid down by the Park Morris Committee.

Mr. Mellish

The latest available information about the average cost of 3-bedroomed houses, approved for building by local authorities in England and Wales, relates to the third quarter of 1966 and was £2,732. Previous figures in this series appear at Table 14 in Housing Statistics No. 3, 1966, prepared in the Ministry. There is no information about the cost of semi-detached houses as a separate category.

It is estimated that the extra cost of a house with all the Parker Morris Standards compared with one without any would be about £400.

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