HC Deb 24 April 1975 vol 890 cc343-9W
Mr. George Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the bids made by each local authority in England and Wales for expenditure in 1975–76 under Section 105 of the Housing Act 1974, and the amount authorised in each case.

Mr. Freeson,

pursuant to his answer [Official Report, 15th April 1975; Vol. 890, c. 93], circulated the following information.

The list of proposals under Section 105 of the Housing Act 1974 by English local authorities for expenditure in 1975–76 on the improvement of dwellings in their ownership, and of the amounts that have so far been allocated, is given below. Figures for the Welsh authorities are not at present available.

NORTHERN REGION
Bid £ Allocation £
Cleveland County
Hartlepool 1,450,000 750,000
Langbaurgh 2,005,000 1,250,000
Middlesbrough 3,601,400 1,000,000
Stockton 2,503,000 1,500,000
Cumbria County
Allerdale 4,852,000 1,500,000
Barrow 379,000 200,000
Carlisle 1,540,000 600,000
Copeland 1,077,000 800,000
Eden 467,000 110,000
South Lakeland 1,106,855 100,000
Durham County
Chester le Street 2,773,000 1,000,000
Darlington 914,500 530,000
Derwentside 3,000,000 1,500,000
Durham 2,835,200 1,700,000
Easington 5,994,000 1,500,000
Sedgefield 1,599,000 1,200,000
Teesdale — 50,000
Wear Valley 1,170,500 1,000,000
Northumberland County
Alnwick — 50,000
Berwick 2,310,000 500,000
Blyth Valley 1,486,500 200,000
Castle Morpeth 298,272 100,000
Tynedale 1,215,000 150,000
Wansbeck 1,330,000 750,000
Tyne and Wear County
Gateshead 9,720,761 3,800,000
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6,473,954 4,300,000
North Tyneside 3,079,700 1,600,000
South Tyneside 7,194,666 4,300,000
Sunderland 7,141,400 4,300.000

NORTH-WEST REGION
Bid £ Allocation £
Cheshire County
Chester 488,000 220,000
Congleton 1,029,000 740,000
Crewe and Nantwich 558,000 425,000
Ellesmere Port 651,000 300,000
Halton 456,000 350,000
Macclesfield 584,000 280,000
Vale Royal 640,000 30,000
Warrington 756,000 700,000
Greater Manchester County
Bolton 2,545,000 1,450,000
Bury 1,434,000 230,000
Manchester 16,269,000 12,000,000
Oldham 6,647,000 3,000,000
Rochdale 7,139,000 1,250,000
Salford City 3,902,000 2,500,000
Stockport 2,014,000 1,250,000
Tameside 3,398,000 1,750,000
Trafford 3,493,000 2,500,000
Wigan 5,350,000 4,500,000
Lancashire County
Blackburn 1,111,000 550,000
Blackpool 1,029,000 410,000
Burnley 570,500 250,000
Chorley 209,000 35,000
Fylde 229,000 25,000
Hyndburn 280,000 200,000
Lancaster 544,000 160,000
Pendle 1,855,000 1,150,000
Preston 1,816,000 1,000,000
Ribble Valley 248,000 150,000
Rossendale 1,139,000 700,000
South Ribble 84,000 75,000
West Lancashire 706,000 225,000
Wyre 50,000 20,000
Merseyside County
Knowsley 2,583,700 2,250,000
Liverpool City 19,288,000 12,000,000
St. Helens 2,390,200 2,500,000
Sefton 2,652,000 500,000
Wirral 2,345,000 2,000,000
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER-SIDE REGION
Humberside County
Beverley 806,500 150,000
Boothferry 400,000 100,000
Cleethorpes 296,000 200,000
Glanford 460,000 100,000
Grimsby 516,600 400,000
Holderness 172,000 50,000
Kingston-on-Hull 1,122,211 900,000
North Wolds 438,400 150,000
Scunthorpe 1,316,000 300,00
North Yorkshire County
Craven 200,000 70,000
Hambleton 503,000 110,000
Harrogate 1,400,000 300,000
Richmondshire 228,000 200,000
Ryedale 447,000 200,000
Scarborough 455,511 200,000
Selby 699,000 100,000
York 3,398,000 1,270,000

Bid £ Allocation £
South Yorkshire County
Barnsley 7,129,381 3,270,000
Doncaster 5,100,000 500,000
Rotherham 8,747,520 2,710,000
Sheffield 4,100,000 3,200,000
West Yorkshire County
Bradford 1,819,000 900,000
Calderdale 1,342,195 700,000
Kirklees 4,281,200 1,810,000
Leeds 7,817,046 2,700,000
Wakefield 10,313,000 3,800,000
WEST MIDLANDS REGION
Hereford and Worcester County
Bromsgrove 1,182,600 202,600
Hereford 1,679,000 936,000
Leominster 44,778 5,000
Malvern Hills 923,000 100,000
Redditch 1,352,000 150,000
South Herefordshire 219,000 20,000
Worcester 443,000 410,000
Wychaven 1,753,900 646,900
Wyre Forest 744,000 400,000
Salop County
Bridgnorth 222,500 58,000
North Shropshire 465,500 319,500
Shrewsbury 475,960 133,850
South Shropshire 76,000 76,000
Wrekin 2,267,000 1,179,000
Staffordshire County
Cannock Chase 844,050 164,050
East Staffordshire 411,125 50,000
Lichfield 824,000 343,000
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1,207,500 532,500
South Staffordshire 480,000 216,000
Stafford 685,485 450,000
Staffordshire Moorlands 595,500 40,000
Stoke-on-Trent 2,015,000 800,000
Tamworth 835,000 355,000
Warwickshire County
North Warwickshire 1,293,000 200,000
Nuneaton 2,264,000 781,000
Rugby 727,000 685,000
Stratford-on-Avon 1,361,675 878,675
Warwick 2,294,768 250,000
West Midlands County
Birmingham 10,400,000 5,000,000
Coventry 3,879,000 2,200,000
Dudley 4,768,000 2,000,000
Sandwell 9,999,294 2,200,000
Solihull 440,000 150,000
Walsall 2,750,000 2,000,000
Wolverhampton 5,000,000 800,000
EAST MIDLANDS REGION
Derbyshire County
Amber Valley 2,197,000 1,000,000
Bolsover 1,639,503 1,000,000
Chesterfield 1,748,345 995,000
Derby 1,442,100 940,000
Erewash 1,017,750 295,000
High Peak 1,105,360 500,000
North - East Derbyshire 1,343,000 675,000
South Derbyshire 980,800 485,000
West Derbyshire 879,000 250,000

Bid £ Allocation £
Leicestershire County
Blaby 336,050 110,000
Charnwood 2,063,492 250,000
Harborough 334,000 160,000
Hinckley & Bosworth 267,568 140,000
Leicester City 1,475,000 1,400,000
North - West Leicestershire 600,000 270,000
Oadby & Wigston 309,450 265,000
Rutland 100,800 45,000
Lincolnshire County
Boston 246,000 93,000
East Lindsey 619,832 300,000
Lincoln 420,000 255,000
North Kesteven 143,000 25,000
South Holland 480,000 300,000
South Kesteven 1,164,600 650,000
West Lindsey 396,350 215,000
Northamptonshire County
Corby520,000 155,000
Daventry 752,000 300,000
East Northants 498,613 400,000
Kettering 770,593 580,000
Northampton 3,780,495 1,000,000
South Northants 350,000 145,000
Wellingborough 692,000 450,000
Nottinghamshire County
Ashfield 4,400,000 2,700,000
Bassetlaw 4,660,717 2,990,000
Broxtowe 2,302,000 1,695,000
Gedling 410,800 225,000
Mansfield 1,222,000 480,000
Newark 790,500 695,000
Nottingham City 7,437,000 5,750,000
Rushcliffe 257,250 115,000
LONDON
Greater London Council 18,600,000 11,000,000
City of London 114,000 50,000
Barking 830,000 350,000
Barnet 2,369,936 1,300,000
Brent 6,670,000 2,200,000
Bromley 1,861,000 700,000
Camden 13,690,000 6,000,000
Croydon 274,000 150,000
Ealing 1,055,000 520,000
Enfield 3,628,500 1,100,000
Greenwich 4,645,300 1,700,000
Hackney 3,705,000 2,300,000
Hammersmith 3,629,550 1,300,000
Haringey 2,350,000 1,700,000
Harrow 1,025,000 450,000
Hillingdon 4,705,369 2,700,000
Hounslow 1,482,167 300,000
Islington 18,887,000 8,000,000
Kensington & Chelsea 1,912,000 460,000
Kingston upon Thames 910,000 540,000
Lambeth 6,675,000 5,500,000
Lewisham 10,413,000 2,800,000
Merton 1,269,300250,000
Newham 2,824,500 1,600,000
Redbridge 46,000 40,000
Richmond on Thames 858,000 650,000
Southwark 12,351,000 7,000,000
Sutton 81,120 30,000
Tower Hamlets 1,366,200 400,000
Waltham Forest 878,000 450,000
Wandsworth 6,538,130 2,400,000
Westminster 2,706,000 1,800,000

SOUTH-EAST REGION
Bid £ Allocation £
Bedfordshire County
Bedford 1,107,000 502,200
Luton 190,047 103,400
Mid-Beds 393,000 136,300
South Beds 992,000 275,300
Berkshire County
Bracknell 442,000 94,500
Newbury 600,000 150,000
Reading 857,872 774,500
Slough 946,190 934,500
Windsor and Maiden-head 247,950 51,000
Wokingham 144,160 52,500
Buckinghamshire County
Aylesbury Vale 979,217 229,200
Beaconsfield 68,000 11,300
Chiltern 223,431 162,600
Milton Keynes 659,170 223,700
Wycombe 935,084 472,600
Cambridgeshire County
Cambridge City 1,313,500 726,000
East Cambridgeshire 95,700 17,200
Fenland 244,000 102,300
Huntingdon 471,000 114,300
Peterborough 3,224,660 1,558,000
South Cambridgeshire 541,000 166,000
East Sussex County
Brighton 1,306,000 1,067,000
Eastbourne 120,000 20,000
Hastings 178,000 112,700
Hove 36,000 6,000
Lewes 275,000 45,800
Rother 291,190 48,500
Wealden 610,745 235,100
Essex County
Basildon 700,000 800,000
Braintree 944,000 458,200
Brentwood 59,000 14,800
Castle Point 30,000 5,000
Chelmsford 870,000 870,000
Colchester 725,000 241,700
Epping Forest 272,000 133,700
Harlow 116,800 23,600
Malden 418,000 77,200
Rochford 205,000 34,200
Southend-on-Sea 715,000 423,300
Tendering 162,650 79,300
Thurrock 1,668,000 495,500
Uttelsford 24,000 16,800
Hampshire County
Basingstoke 303,650 55,300
East Hampshire 444,000 114,000
Eastleigh 872,000 368,700
Fareham 27,900 27,900
Gosport 635,000 280,800
Hart 49,200 34,000
Havant 377,000 332,800
New Forest 666,922 258,900
Portsmouth 840,000 390,000
Rushmoor 630,000 105,000
Southampton 825,000 325,000
Test Valley 1,137,500 505,800
Winchester 482,500 149,200

Bid £ Allocation £
Herfordshire County
Broxbourne 400,000 66,700
Dacorum 814,000 202,300
East Herts 402,000 68,700
Hertsmere 1,053,180 883,900
North Herts 1,390,000 244,800
St. Albans 2,194,775 1,035,600
Stevenage 46,000 124,900
Three Rivers 49,000 8,200
Watford 375,500 71,300
Welwyn Hatfield 1,824,000 754,300
Isle of Wight
Medina 612,000 161,200
South Wight 250,000 125,000
Kent County
Ashford 767,400 163,200
Canterbury City 217,460 85,900
Dartford 4,000 2,300
Dover 952,600 430,300
Gillingham 1,382,249 1,382,200
Gravesham 1,933,396 599,400
Maidstone 402,000 72,800
Medway 158,000 158,000
Sevenoaks 260,000 93,300
Shepway 100,000 16,700
Swale 890,866 332,500
Thanet 291,000 63,500
Tonbridge and Malling 150,000 25,000
Tunbridge Wells 240,100 173,400
Norfolk County
Breckland 207,700 132,700
Broadland 332,000 123,700
Great Yarmouth 631,795 102,600
North Norfolk 375,855 89,100
Norwich City 1,243,000 465,500
South Norfolk 168,800 34,600
West Norfolk 932,110 324,600
Oxfordshire County
Cherwell 1,450,000 241,700
Oxford City 417,000 117,900
South Oxfordshire 308,500 51,400
Vale of White Horse 380,500 70,000
Suffolk Couty
Babergh 619,000 248,600
Forest Heath 91,400 19,700
Ipswich 750,000 133,300
Mid Suffolk 474,000 240,700
St. Edmundsbury 630,890 148,500
Suffolk Coastal 375,000 223,200
Waveney 62,000 53,700
Surrey County
Elmbridge 546,000 214,300
Epson/Ewell 300,000 50,00
Guildford 558,000 276,500
Mole Valley 504,700 294,700
Reigate/Banstead 120,000 43,300
Runnymede 11,000 11,000
Surrey Heath 159,700 33,000
Tanbridge 60,000 10,000
Waverley 567,000 233,700
Woking 25,000 4,200

Bid£ Allocation£
West Sussex County
Arun 200,000 33,300
Chichester 353,300 95,100
Crawley 167,300 74,900
Horsham 103,947 18,200
Mid Sussex 161,000 26,800
Worthing 80,000 13,300
SOUTH-WEST REGION
Avon County
Bath City 2,801,000 714,000
Bristol City 2,700,000 726,500
Kingswood 267,000 170,000
Northavon 198,250 152,000
Wansdyke 277,500 55,500
Woodspring 92,000 25,000
Cornwall County
Caradon 212,194 50,394
Carrick 585,000 45,000
Kerrier 350,000 88,000
North Cornwall 80,000 10,500
Penwith 236,000 16,000
Restormel 138,800 10,800
Devon County
East Devon 243,500 61,500
Exeter City 803,000 310,000
North Devon 644,500 150,000
Plymouth City 1,958,000 650,000
South Hams 139,910 75,500
Teignbridge 722,500 54,000
Tiverton 645,135 302,535
Torbay 550,000 400,000
Torridge 187,500 58,000
West Devon 250,000 100,000
Dorset County
Bournemouth 355,000 80,000
Christchurch 252,500 4,000
North Dorset 226,194 22,194
Poole 194,750 35,750
Purbeck 50,000 15,000
West Dorset 757,291 150,000
Weymouth & Portland 305,562 142,562
Wimborne 59,800 20,000
Gloucestershire County
Cheltenham 167,050 90,000
Cotswold 750,000 50,000
Forest of Dean 424,550 255,000
Gloucester 441,618 80,846
Stroud 68,550 68,000
Tewkesbury 108,000 18,000
Somerset County
Mendip 492,000 102,000
Sedgemoor 41,000 15,000
Taunton Deane 1,090,666 366,166
West Somerset 241,910 4,000
Yeovil 250,000 125,000
Wiltshire County
Kennet 305,000 35,000
North Wiltshire 470,000 314,000
Salisbury 66,000 20,000
Thamesdown 1,010,000 540,000
West Wiltshire 515,000 180,000