§ Mr. Haselhurstasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many overfill housing estates exist in England and Wales; and what is the total number of housing units they provide;
(2) how many housing authorities in England and Wales have resorted to overfill housing to solve their accommodation problems; and if he will name them.
§ Mr. ChannonInformation on the number of overspill estates is not available. Some 103,000 dwellings have been completed by local authorities outside their own areas since 1st April 1945. As a result of boundary changes, some of these dwellings will no longer be outside the area of the present authority.
Forty-nine authorities or their predecessors have built outside their areas and these are listed below:—
London authorities: GLC, City of London, Barking, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hounslow, Merton, Newham, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sutton, Waltham Forest.
County boroughs: Birmingham, Bootle, Derby, Gateshead, Kingston upon Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newport, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Rotherham, Salford, Sheffield, Teesside.
Boroughs: Abergavenny, Aldershot, Arundel, Bedford, Blandford Forum, Chelmsford, Crosby, Ilkeston, Jarrow, Newbury, St. Albans, Slough, Swindon, Watford.
Urban districts: Caerphilly, Cuckfield, Hebburn, Rickmansworth, Swadlincote.