HC Deb 24 June 1980 vol 987 cc126-8W
Mr. Marlow

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in respect of each inner London borough for each of the last eight years, what have been the numbers (a) of private houses purchased, (b) cumulative, of undemolished unmodernised former private houses, still in local authority possession and (c) of former private houses modernised; what has been the capital expenditure on the purchase of private property, for each year the cumulative figures and what has been the capital expenditure on modernisation of private houses and; the cumulative figures for each year for each of the same boroughs.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The only information available relates to the number and associated cost of private dwellings purchased by local authorities in inner London, which is as follows:

NUMBERS OF PRIVATE DWELLINGS PURCHASED 1974–75 TO 1979–80
Authority 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80† Total
City of London … … 0 0 9 0 0 0 9
Camden … … 2,208 686 587 393 394 150 4,418
Greenwich … … 280 117 54 76 28 67 622
Hackney … … 47 117 140 212 154 250 920
Hammersmith … … 931 386 433 330 188 45 2,313
Islington … … 983 736 573 352 360 250 3,254
Kensington and Chelsea … … 60 75 80 4 2 7 228
Lambeth … … 1,034 383 323 106 176 100 2,122
Lewisham … … 682 618 515 116 104 120 2,155
Southwark … … 87 205 820 67 830 120 2,129
Tower Hamlets … … 129 132 14 3 0 4 282
Wandsworth … … 1,066 221 297 258 99 40 1,981
Westminster … … 300 31 52 37 187 100 707
† Provisional estimate based on August 1979 HIP2 returns.

COST OF PURCHASING PRIVATE DWELLINGS 1974–75 TO 1979–80
£ thousands
Authority 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80† Total
City of London … … 0 0 52 0 0 0 52
Camden … … 15,037* 3,971* 2,800* 1,719 2,780 2,746 29,053
Greenwich … … 3,667* 990* 394 505 280 673 6,509
Hackney … … 857* 1,769* 2,083* 1,709 1,869 2,250 10,537
Hammersmith … … 6,893* 3,744* 4,108 1,630 751 350 17,476
Islington … … 10,300* 9,244* 6,460 3,262 4,160 2,400 35,826
Kensington and Chelsea … … 625* 816* 885* 65* 50* 420 2,861
Lambeth … … 7,408* 4,443* 2,810 1,039 3,045 1,710 20,455
Lewisham … … 8,428* 4,979* 3,291 1335 1,736 1,800 21,569
Southwark … … 1,670* 1,792* 2,582 388 1,050 771 8,253
Tower Hamlets … … 960* 359* 80 28 0 60 1,487
Wandsworth … … 11,247* 3,954* 2,996 2,605 1,068 500 22,370
Westminster … … 5,047* 133 264 130 497 425 6,496
* Includes payments for any capitalised initial works.
† Provisional estimate based on August 1979 HIP2 returns.