HC Deb 04 November 1974 vol 880 cc56-9W
Mr. Michael Latham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT each local authority to which he has so far given loan sanction to buy unsold houses off private developers under Circular 70/74, the number of dwellings approved in each local authority area, and the cumulative totals in each case; and what is the total sum of money which he has authorised to be borrowed to date for this purpose.

Mr. Kaufman

Up to 31st October, approvals had been given for some 4,450 of these dwellings to be acquired at a total cost of about £42,460,000 by the 125 English local authorities listed below.

Local authority and number of dwellings approved
NORTHERN REGION
Alnwick 2
Barrow-in-Furness 44
Blyth Valley 68
Newcastle 44
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION
Glanford 7
Grimsby 18
Harrogate 7
Leeds 49
Wakefield 54
York 6
EAST MIDLAND REGION
Ashfield 52
Broxtowe 119
Chesterfield 12
Corby 17
Daventry 78
Gedling 41
Leicester 44
Mansfield 56
Nottingham 428
Rushcliffe 119
EAST ANGLIA
Peterborough 7
South Cambridgeshire 21
SOUTH-EAST REGION
Greater London Council 85
Barnet 43
Bexley 2
Bromley 33
Camden 3
Croydon 18
Ealing 20
Greenwich 56
Harrow 16
Havering 14
Hillingdon 8
Hounslow 5
Islington 9
Kingston 45
Lewisham 50
Merton 18
Newham 58
Redbridge 20
Southwark 9
Sutton 146
Waltham Forest 90
Wandsworth 14
Arun 21
Ashford 30
Basildon 30
Castle Point 16
Chichester 16
Chiltern 10
Eastbourne 98
Elmbridge 13
Epsom and Ewell 18
Gosport 30
Gravesend 2
Hastings 48
Lewes 13
Luton 80
Maidstone 9
Medina 15
Milton Keynes 10
Mole Valley 16
Newbury 22
Oxford 3
Rochford 37
Sevenoaks 11
Slough 18
Southampton 76
Southend 4
South Oxon 51
Spelthorne 5
Swale 152
Test Valley 54
Thanet 51
Thurrock 12
Tunbridge Wells 13
Waverley 22
Wealden 36
West Oxon 7
Woking 16
Wokingham 21
Worthing 15
Wycombe 48
SOUTH-WEST REGION
Bath 12
Bournemouth 59
Bristol 52
Caradon 6
Christchurch 14
East Devon 20
Exeter 44
Gloucester 25
Kingswood 18
North Dorset 6
North Wiltshire 14
Penwith 7
Purbeck 60
Thamesdown 21
Torbay 17
Wimborne 61
Woodspring 4
Yeovil 4
WEST MIDLAND REGION
Birmingham 82
Coventry 62
Malvern Hills 17
North Shropshire 16
Nuneaton 70
Sandwell 7
Shrewsbury 9
Stoke-on-Trent 11
Tamworth 22
Walsall 43
Warwick 44
Wolverhampton 69
Worcester 29
Wye Forest 19
Local authority and number of dwellings approved
NORTH-WEST REGION
Chorley 16
Crewe and Nantwich 22
Liverpool 12
Manchester 43
Oldham 6
Salford 17
South Ribble 10
St. Helens 121
West Lancashire 19
Wigan 38

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