HC Deb 03 December 1974 vol 882 cc448-54W
Mr. Frank Allaun

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many compulsory purchase orders were issued for, and how many acquisitions were made of, privately-owned houses since March 1974 to the most recent available date for each local authority, showing separately the figures for individual boroughs in inner and outer London.

Mr. Kaufman

The information requested about compulsory purchase orders is as follows:

PART V AND PART II COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDERS CONFIRMED 1ST APRIL-31ST OCTOBER 1974
Orders confirmed Order for acquisition and retention
London Inner:
Camden 4 4
Greenwich 1
Hammersmith 2
Islington 13 3
Kensington and Chelsea 1
Lambeth 4 1
Lewisham 9
Southwark 4
Wandsworth 5
London Outer:
Brent 6 6
Croydon 2
Enfield 1
Haringey 3 3
Harrow 1
Hillingdon 3
Hounslow 2
Kingston 1
Newham 2 2
Sutton 1
Waltham Forest 1 1
England (excluding London)
Allerdale 1
Barnsley 1
Bath 1
Blackburn 1
Bournemouth 1
Bradford 1
Brighton 1
Broxbourne 2
Cheltenham 1
Crawley 1
Derby 1
Dudley 1
Grimsby 1
Kingston-upon-Hull 1
Leeds 1
Liverpool 1
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1
Northampton 1
North Tyneside 1
Nottingham 1
Oadby and Wigton 1 1
Oldham 2
Penwith 1
Portsmouth 5

Preston 2
Redditch 1
Rotherham 1
Salford 1
Scunthorpe 2
Tameside 1
Test Valley 1
Trafford 1
Wakefield 1
Walsall 2
Windsor and Maidenhead 1
Wirral 1
Wolverhampton 1

Available information about acquisitions of privately-owned dwellings, excluding acquisitions of new houses from private developers, is given below:

Number
Northern
Alnwick
Carlisle
Castle Morpeth
Darlington 20
Derwentside 1
Durham
Easington 38
Eden
Hartlepool
Langbaurgh 2
Middlesbrough 12
Newcastle upon Tyne 4
Stockton-on-Tees 4
Sunderland 16
Tynedale
Wansbeck 15
Yorks and Humberside
Beverley
Boothferry
Calderdale 1
Doncaster
Glanford 3
Humberside 5
Hambleton
Harrogate
Holderness
Kirklees
North Wolds
Ryedale 1
Scunthorpe
Selby
York 12
East Midlands
Amber Valley
Ashfield 1
Bassetlaw
Boston
Chesterfield 8
Corby 20
Daventry 34
East Lindsey
East Northamptonshire 1
Erewash 4
High Peak
Mansfield 63
North Kesteven
Leicester
Rushcliffe 7
Rutland
South Holland
South Kesteven 6

Number
South Northamptonshire
Wellingborough 10
West Derbyshire 2
West Lindsey
East Anglia
Babergh
Breckland
Cambridge 21
East Cambridgeshire
Fenland
Great Yarmouth 7
Mid Suffolk
North Suffolk
St. Edmundsbury 11
Suffolk Coastal
Waveney 29
South East (part) Beds, Essex, Herts
Basildon 7
Braintree 26
Broxbourne 3
Chelmsford
Dacorum 19
East Hertfordshire
Epping Forest
Harlow
Hertsmere 6
Maldon
Mid Bedfordshire
North Hertfordshire 2
South Bedfordshire 2
Southend-on-Sea 8
St. Albans 6
Thurrock 2
Uttlesford
Welwyn Hatfield
South East (part) South Eastern Counties
Adur
Brighton 37
Canterbury
Chichester 8
Crawley
Epsom and Ewell 1
Gravesham 2
Hastings
Hove
Lewes
Maidstone 3
Reigate and Banstead 5
Rother 3
Runnymede
Shepway 1
Spelthorne 15
Tunbridge Wells 4
Waverley 2
Wealden 38
Woking 9
Worthing 16
South East (part) Southern Counties
Aylesbury Vale 6
Beaconsfield
Chiltern 4
Fareham
Gosport 9
Havant 7

Number
Milton Keynes 1
Newbury 11
Slough 8
Test Valley
Vale of White Horse 1
Winchester
Wokingham 1
South West
Bournemouth 8
Caradon 6
Cheltenham 57
Cotswold
Forest of Dean
Kerrier
Northavon 2
North Devon 7
Purbeck 49
Restormel
Salisbury 3
Sedgemoor
Stroud
Teignbridge 5
Tewkesbury 1
Thamesdown 66
Torbay 13
Torridge
Wansdyke
West Devon
West Dorset 2
West Somerset
Weymouth and Portland
West Wiltshire
Yeovil 8
West Midlands
Bridgnorth
Coventry 271
Leominster
North Shropshire 2
Nuneaton 82
Redditch 19
Solihull 5
South Shropshire 1
Stoke-on-Trent
Stratford-on-Avon
Tamworth 6
Wolverhampton 56
Worcester 9
Wychavon
Wyre Forest
North West
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Bury
Chester
Chorley 13
Congleton
Crewe and Nantwich
Ellesmere Port
Halton
Knowsley
Oldham
Pendle 6
Rochdale
Stockport
Tameside 13
Vale Royal 1

Number
Northern
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Blythe Valley 5
Chester-le-Street
Copeland 1
Gateshead
South Lakeland
South Tyneside 1
Teesdale 1
Yorks and Humberside
Barnsley
Craven
Hull 8
Richmondshire
Scarborough
Sheffield
Wakefield
East Midlands
Derby 2
Gedling
Harborough
Leicester 22
Lincoln 12
Melton 1
South Derbyshire
East Anglia
Broadland
Forest Heath
Huntingdon
Ipswich 7
Norfolk
West Norfolk
South East (Part) Beds, Essex, Herts
Bedford
Castle Point 7
Colchester
Rochford
Stevenage 23
Tendring 3
Three Rivers 4
Watford 4
South East (part) South Eastern Counties
Gillingham 1
Mole Valley
Surrey Heath 1
Thanet
Tonbridge and Malling
South East (part) South Counties
Bracknell 4
East Hampshire 3
Hart
Medina
New Forest
Oxford 2
Reading 13
Rushmoor
Southampton 1
South Oxfordshire
South Wight
West Oxfordshire
Windsor and Maidenhead 2
Wycombe

South-west Number
Carrick 1
Christchurch 10
Exeter 2
Gloucester 1
Kennet 1
Kingswood
North Cornwall
North Dorset 6
North Wiltshire
Plymouth
Scilly Isles
Tiverton
Woodspring
West Midlands
Birmingham 45
Bromsgrove
Dudley
East Staffordshire
Lichfield
Malvern Hills
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North Warwickshire 32
Oswestry 2
Rugby 11
South Herefordshire
South Staffordshire
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Warwick 12
Wrekin
North-west
Burnley
Fylde
Hyndburn
Liverpool 3
Macclesfield 6
Preston 2
Ribble Valley 1
Rossendale
Salford
Sefton
South Ribble
West Lancashire
Wigan
Wirral
Wyre