Town and Country Planning (Hansard, 16 November 1977)

§ Mr. Guy Barnett

Orders repealing Schedules 5 and 6 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 have not yet been made for the following parts of EnglandThe counties of Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire. Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxford-shire, Salop, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tyne and Wear, West Sussex, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire; In the county of Cleveland, the district of Hartlepool; In the county of Hampshire, the districts of Basingstoke, Hart and Rushmore, and parts of

ACREAGE OF DERELICT LAND RECLAIMED IN ENGLAND IN 1975–76^*
Region	By Local Authorities	By Other Agencies	Total
Northern	…	…	…	1,460	269	1,729
North West	…	…	…	685	130	815
Yorkshire and Humberside	…	…	…	362	411	773
West Midlands	…	…	…	867	437	1,304
East Midlands	…	…	…	322	552	874
South West	…	…	…	79	17	96
South East (including London)	…	…	…	120	233	353
East Anglia	…	…	…	47	103	150
Total for England	…	…	…	3,942	2,152	6,094
^* Figures for subsequent periods are not yet available.

(b) LOCAL AUTHORITY EXPENDITURE ON THE RECLAMATION OF DERELICT LAND†
Region	1975–76£m.	1976–77‡£m.	1st 6 months 1977–78‡£m.
Northern	4.0	3.6	1.6
North West	2.1	2.0	0.8
Yorkshire and Humberside	1.0	1.9	0.7
West Midlands	2.0	1.4	0.4
East Midlands	1.1	0.8	0.3
South West	0.3	0.07	0.04
South East (including London) and East Anglia	0.2	0.1	0.05
Total for England	10.7	9.9	3.9
† Expenditure by other agencies is not known.
‡ Expenditure was affected by the moratorium on local authority schemes between [15th]December 1976 and 14th June 1977.