§ Mr. Hobdenasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will estimate the financial cost to Brighton Corporation of doubling its existing council house building programme.
§ Mr. Freeson:Doubling Brighton's 1969 housing programme would produce building costs of the order of £2 million. Total gross and net costs to the rates,
AVERAGE WEEKLY INCREASE If subsidies were withdrawn from existing dwellings If subsidies were withdrawn from dwellings under construction If applied to rents of dwellings under construction If pooled over the whole of authority's stock Heywood Borough … … 8s. 45s.–60s. 1s.–2s. Royton Urban District … … 7s. No dwellings under construction Crompton Urban District … … 7s. No dwellings under construction Milnrow Urban District … … 6s. 50s.–65s. 8s.–11s. Littleborough Urban District … 10s. No dwellings other than for old people under construction Wardle Urban District … … 5s. No dwellings under construction Whitworth Urban District … 14s. 50s.–65s. 9s.–12s. Mr. Peter Archer asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what in his estimate of the average weekly increase in council house rents needed for existing dwellings, in shillings, on the ba3is that housing subsidies to Warley County Borough Council are abolished, excepting old people's accommodation; and what is the estimated weekly increase needed to offset the subsidy on dwellings under construction on 1st January, 1970.
38Wtenants and the Government, during and after construction would depend on many factors which can not be assessed in the absence of definite proposals and more information from the Corporation.