§
Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg
The reported numbers of housing starts for local authorities are as follows:
| Dwellings started by Local Authorities April 1980 to March 1981 |
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| NORTH |
| Tyne and Wear |
| Gateshead |
226 |
12 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
135 |
12 |
| North Tyneside |
104 |
12 |
| South Tyneside |
131 |
12 |
| Sunderland |
0 |
12 |
| Washington New Town |
407 |
12 |
| Cleveland |
| Hartlepool |
56 |
12 |
| Langbaurgh |
136 |
12 |
| Middlesbrough |
407 |
12 |
| Stockton-on-Tees |
29 |
12 |
| Cumbria |
| Allerdale |
190 |
12 |
| Barrow-in-Furness |
2 |
12 |
| Carlisle |
32 |
12 |
| Copeland |
55 |
12 |
| Eden |
40 |
12 |
| South Lakeland |
32 |
12 |
| Durham |
| Chester-Le-Street |
35 |
12 |
| Darlington |
66 |
12 |
| Derwentside |
99 |
12 |
| Durham |
5 |
12 |
| Easington |
122 |
12 |
| Sedgefield |
0 |
12 |
| Teesdale |
15 |
12 |
| Wear Valley |
15 |
12 |
| Aycliffe New Town |
|
|
| Peterlee New Town |
|
|
| Northumberland |
|
|
| Alnwick |
0 |
12 |
64W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed |
52 |
12 |
| Blyth Valley |
26 |
12 |
| Castle Morpeth |
6 |
12 |
| Tynedale |
66 |
12 |
| Wansbeck |
0 |
12 |
| YORKS AND HUMBERSIDE |
|
|
| South Yorkshire |
|
|
| Barnsley |
55 |
12 |
| Doncaster |
192 |
11 |
| Rotherham |
194 |
12 |
| Sheffield |
502 |
12 |
| West Yorkshire |
|
|
| Bradford |
270 |
12 |
| Calderdale |
32 |
12 |
| Kirklees |
122 |
12 |
| Leeds |
375 |
12 |
| Wakefield |
188 |
12 |
| Humberside |
|
|
| Beverley |
95 |
12 |
| Boothferry |
4 |
12 |
| Cleethorpes |
79 |
12 |
| Glanford |
37 |
12 |
| Great Grimsby |
79 |
12 |
| Holderness |
52 |
12 |
| Kingston upon Hull |
586 |
12 |
| East Yorkshire |
51 |
12 |
| Scunthorpe |
0 |
12 |
| North Yorkshire |
|
|
| Craven |
51 |
12 |
| Hambleton |
102 |
12 |
| Harrogate |
73 |
12 |
| Richmondshire |
27 |
12 |
| Ryedale |
25 |
9 |
| Scarborough |
18 |
12 |
| Selby |
71 |
12 |
| York |
83 |
12 |
| EAST MIDLANDS |
|
|
| Derbyshire |
|
|
| Amber Valley |
8 |
12 |
| Bolsover |
16 |
12 |
| Chesterfield |
39 |
12 |
| Deity |
75 |
12 |
| Erewash |
64 |
12 |
| High Peak |
0 |
12 |
| North East Derbyshire |
91 |
12 |
| South Derbyshire |
57 |
12 |
| West Derbyshire |
0 |
12 |
| Leicestershire |
|
|
| Blaby |
0 |
12 |
| Charnwood |
106 |
12 |
| Harborough |
91 |
12 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
63 |
12 |
| Leicester |
59 |
12 |
| Melton |
0 |
12 |
| North West Leicestershire |
9 |
12 |
| Oadby and Wigston |
0 |
12 |
| Rutland |
16 |
12 |
| Lincolnshire |
|
|
| Boston |
0 |
12 |
| East Lindsey |
0 |
12 |
| Lincoln |
33 |
12 |
| North Kesteven |
49 |
12 |
| South Holland |
0 |
12 |
| South Kesteven |
0 |
12 |
| West Lindsey |
27 |
12 |
| Northamptonshire |
|
|
| Corby |
0 |
12 |
| Daventry |
35 |
12 |
| East Northamptonshire |
29 |
12 |
| Kettering |
62 |
12 |
| Northampton |
66 |
12 |
| South Northamptonshire |
4 |
6 |
65W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| Wellingborough |
126 |
12 |
| Corby New Town |
|
|
| Northampton New Town |
483 |
9 |
| Nottinghamshire |
|
|
| Ashfield |
71 |
12 |
| Bassetlaw |
76 |
12 |
| Broxtowe |
61 |
12 |
| Gedling |
28 |
12 |
| Mansfield |
265 |
12 |
| Newark |
29 |
10 |
| Nottingham |
87 |
12 |
| Rushcliffe |
34 |
12 |
| EAST ANGLIA |
|
|
| Cambridgeshire |
|
|
| Cambridge |
126 |
12 |
| East Cambridgeshire |
24 |
12 |
| Fenland |
59 |
12 |
| Huntingdon |
33 |
12 |
| Peterborough |
28 |
12 |
| South Cambridgeshire |
27 |
12 |
| Peterborough New Town |
347 |
12 |
| Norfolk |
|
|
| Breckland |
49 |
12 |
| Broadland |
27 |
12 |
| Great Yarmouth |
0 |
12 |
| North Norfolk |
4 |
12 |
| Norwich |
56 |
12 |
| South Norfolk |
107 |
12 |
| Kings Lynn and West Norfolk |
1 |
12 |
| Suffolk |
|
|
| Babergh |
34 |
12 |
| Forest Heath |
0 |
12 |
| Ipswich |
87 |
12 |
| Mid Suffolk |
7 |
12 |
| St. Edmundsbury |
50 |
12 |
| Suffolk Coastal |
27 |
12 |
| Waveney |
118 |
12 |
| SOUTH EAST |
|
|
| Greater London Council |
51 |
12 |
| City of London* |
-86 |
12 |
| Barking and Dagenham |
144 |
12 |
| Barnet |
11 |
12 |
| Bexley |
63 |
12 |
| Brent |
3 |
12 |
| Bromley |
114 |
12 |
| Camden |
36 |
12 |
| Croydon |
30 |
12 |
| Ealing |
352 |
12 |
| Enfield |
110 |
12 |
| Greenwich |
225 |
12 |
| Hackney |
38 |
12 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
63 |
12 |
| Haringey |
85 |
12 |
| Harrow |
28 |
12 |
| Havering |
38 |
12 |
| Hillingdon |
0 |
8 |
| Hounslow |
0 |
12 |
| Islington |
322 |
12 |
| Kensington and Chelsea |
51 |
12 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
0 |
12 |
| Lambeth |
0 |
12 |
| Lewisham |
121 |
12 |
| Merton |
0 |
12 |
| Newham |
161 |
12 |
| Redbridge |
0 |
12 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
29 |
12 |
| Southwark |
122 |
12 |
| Sutton |
45 |
12 |
| Tower Hamlets |
20 |
12 |
| Waltham Forest |
162 |
12 |
| Wandsworth† |
-61 |
12 |
| Westminster |
55 |
12 |
66W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| SOUTH EAST |
|
|
| Bedfordshire |
|
|
| Luton |
102 |
12 |
| Mid Bedfordshire |
36 |
12 |
| North Bedfordshire |
34 |
11 |
| South Bedfordshire |
38 |
11 |
| Berkshire |
|
|
| Bracknell |
34 |
12 |
| Newbury |
42 |
8 |
| Reading |
77 |
12 |
| Slough |
50 |
12 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead |
36 |
12 |
| Wokingham |
65 |
12 |
| Bracknell New Town |
27 |
12 |
| Buckinghamshire |
|
|
| Aylesbury Vale |
174 |
12 |
| Chiltern |
0 |
12 |
| Milton Keynes |
24 |
12 |
| South Bucks |
70 |
12 |
| Wycombe |
82 |
12 |
| Milton Keynes New Town |
1,521 |
12 |
| East Sussex |
|
|
| Brighton |
74 |
12 |
| Eastbourne |
82 |
4 |
| Hastings |
7 |
12 |
| Hove |
77 |
12 |
| Lewes |
3 |
12 |
| Rother |
60 |
12 |
| Wealden |
78 |
12 |
| Essex |
|
|
| Basildon |
40 |
12 |
| Braintree |
30 |
12 |
| Brentwood |
8 |
12 |
| Castle Point |
9 |
12 |
| Chelmsford |
93 |
12 |
| Colchester |
65 |
12 |
| Epping Forest |
42 |
12 |
| Harlow |
0 |
12 |
| Maldon |
22 |
12 |
| Rochford |
148 |
12 |
| Southend on Sea |
16 |
12 |
| Tendring |
37 |
12 |
| Thurrock |
63 |
12 |
| Uttlesford |
0 |
12 |
| Basildon New Town |
163 |
12 |
| Harlow New Town |
10 |
12 |
| Hampshire |
|
|
| Basingstoke and Deane |
29 |
12 |
| East Hampshire |
2 |
12 |
| Eastleigh |
37 |
12 |
| Fareham |
59 |
12 |
| Gosport |
68 |
12 |
| Hart |
105 |
12 |
| Havant |
80 |
12 |
| New Forest |
105 |
12 |
| Portsmouth |
4 |
12 |
| Rushmoor |
0 |
12 |
| Southampton |
187 |
12 |
| Test Valley |
10 |
12 |
| Winchester |
2 |
12 |
| Hertfordshire |
|
|
| Broxbourne |
210 |
12 |
| Dacorum |
67 |
12 |
| East Hertfordshire |
16 |
12 |
| Hertsmere |
0 |
12 |
| North Hertfordshire |
65 |
12 |
| St. Albans |
134 |
12 |
| Stevenage |
0 |
12 |
| Three Rivers |
0 |
12 |
| Watford |
167 |
12 |
| Welwyn Hatfield |
53 |
12 |
| Hatfield New Town |
|
|
| Hemel Hemstead New Town |
|
|
67W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| Stevenage New Town |
|
|
| Welwyn Garden City New Town |
|
|
| Isle of Wight |
|
|
| Medina |
1 |
12 |
| South Wight |
8 |
12 |
| Kent |
|
|
| Ashford |
87 |
12 |
| Canterbury |
40 |
12 |
| Dartford |
0 |
12 |
| Dover |
14 |
12 |
| Gillingham |
33 |
12 |
| Gravesham |
70 |
10 |
| Maidstone |
47 |
12 |
| Rochester upon Medway |
51 |
12 |
| Sevenoaks |
19 |
12 |
| Shepway |
16 |
12 |
| Swale |
14 |
12 |
| Thanet |
9 |
12 |
| Tonbridge and Mailing |
20 |
12 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
74 |
12 |
| Oxfordshire |
|
|
| Cherwell |
43 |
12 |
| Oxford |
17 |
12 |
| South Oxfordshire |
120 |
12 |
| Vale of White Horse |
63 |
12 |
| West Oxfordshire |
81 |
12 |
| Surrey |
|
|
| Elmbridge |
35 |
12 |
| Epsom and Ewell |
16 |
8 |
| Guildford |
16 |
12 |
| Mole Valley |
0 |
12 |
| Reigate and Banstead |
18 |
12 |
| Runnymede |
20 |
12 |
| Spelthorne |
81 |
12 |
| Surrey Heath |
58 |
12 |
| Tandridge |
6 |
2 |
| Waverley |
71 |
12 |
| Woking |
105 |
12 |
| West Sussex |
|
|
| Adur |
44 |
12 |
| Arun |
85 |
12 |
| Chichester |
19 |
12 |
| Crawley |
187 |
12 |
| Horsham |
110 |
12 |
| Mid Sussex |
110 |
11 |
| Worthing |
28 |
12 |
| Crawley New Town |
|
|
| SOUTH WEST |
|
|
| Avon |
|
|
| Bath |
15 |
12 |
| Bristol |
90 |
12 |
| Kingswood |
46 |
12 |
| Northavon |
49 |
12 |
| Wansdyke |
37 |
12 |
| Woodspring |
9 |
12 |
| Cornwall |
|
|
| Caradon |
85 |
12 |
| Carrick |
15 |
12 |
| Kerrier |
61 |
12 |
| North Cornwall |
65 |
12 |
| Penwith |
50 |
8 |
| Restormel |
47 |
12 |
| Isles of Scilly |
2 |
12 |
| Devon |
|
|
| East Devon |
48 |
12 |
| Exeter |
24 |
12 |
| Mid Devon |
20 |
12 |
| North Devon |
89 |
12 |
| Plymouth |
131 |
12 |
| South Hams |
18 |
12 |
| Teignbridge |
75 |
12 |
| Torbay |
36 |
11 |
| Torridge |
55 |
12 |
68W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| West Devon |
0 |
12 |
| Dorset |
|
|
| Bournemouth |
58 |
12 |
| Christchurch |
0 |
12 |
| North Dorset |
40 |
12 |
| Poole |
102 |
12 |
| Purbeck |
13 |
12 |
| West Dorset |
15 |
12 |
| Weymouth and Portland |
83 |
12 |
| Wimborne |
0 |
12 |
| Gloucestershire |
|
|
| Cheltenham |
6 |
12 |
| Cotswold |
59 |
12 |
| Forest of Dean |
62 |
12 |
| Gloucester |
25 |
12 |
| Stroud |
47 |
12 |
| Tewkesbury |
53 |
12 |
| Somerset |
|
|
| Mendip |
10 |
12 |
| Sedgemoor |
81 |
12 |
| Taunton Deane |
88 |
12 |
| West Somerset |
93 |
12 |
| Yeovil |
50 |
12 |
| Wiltshire |
|
|
| Kennet |
60 |
12 |
| North Wiltshire |
0 |
12 |
| Salisbury |
30 |
12 |
| Thamesdown |
271 |
12 |
| West Wiltshire |
69 |
12 |
| WEST MIDLANDS |
|
|
| West Midlands |
|
|
| Birmingham |
282 |
12 |
| Coventry |
11 |
12 |
| Dudley |
58 |
12 |
| Sandwell |
181 |
12 |
| Solihull |
0 |
12 |
| Walsall |
1 |
12 |
| Wolverhampton |
285 |
12 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
|
|
| Bromsgrove |
0 |
2 |
| Hereford |
77 |
12 |
| Leominster |
29 |
12 |
| Malvern Hills |
84 |
12 |
| Redditch |
0 |
10 |
| South Herefordshire |
9 |
12 |
| Worcester |
4 |
12 |
| Wychavon |
22 |
12 |
| Wyre Forest |
0 |
12 |
| Redditch New Town |
227 |
12 |
| Shropshire |
|
|
| Bridgnorth |
37 |
12 |
| North Shropshire |
9 |
12 |
| Oswestry |
14 |
9 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham |
30 |
12 |
| South Shropshire |
0 |
12 |
| The Wrekin |
120 |
9 |
| Telford New Town |
425 |
12 |
| Staffordshire |
|
|
| Cannock Chase |
8 |
12 |
| East Staffordshire |
42 |
12 |
| Lichfield |
32 |
8 |
| Newcastle-unde-Lyme |
21 |
12 |
| South Staffordshire |
86 |
12 |
| Stafford |
19 |
12 |
| Staffordshie Moorlands |
26 |
12 |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
71 |
12 |
| Tamworth |
0 |
12 |
| Warwickshire |
|
|
| North Warwickshire |
0 |
12 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth |
48 |
12 |
| Rugby |
21 |
12 |
| Stratford-on-Avon |
87 |
12 |
| Warwick |
0 |
12 |
69W
| Local Authority |
Number of dwellings started |
Number of monthly returns received |
| NORTH WEST |
|
|
| Greater Manchester |
|
|
| Bolton |
236 |
12 |
| Bury |
0 |
12 |
| Manchester |
821 |
12 |
| Oldham |
58 |
12 |
| Rochdale |
495 |
12 |
| Salford |
561 |
12 |
| Stockport |
6 |
12 |
| Tameside |
120 |
12 |
| Trafford |
254 |
12 |
| Wigan |
60 |
12 |
| Merseyside |
|
|
| Knowsley |
0 |
12 |
| Liverpool |
0 |
12 |
| St. Helens |
181 |
12 |
| Sefton |
122 |
12 |
| Wirral |
25 |
12 |
| Cheshire |
|
|
| Chester |
0 |
12 |
| Congleton |
45 |
12 |
| Crewe and Nantwich |
15 |
12 |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston |
25 |
12 |
| Hal ton |
39 |
12 |
| Macclesfield |
24 |
12 |
| Vale Royal |
0 |
12 |
| Warrington |
70 |
12 |
| Runcorn New Town |
0 |
12 |
| Warrington New Town |
560 |
12 |
| Lancashire |
|
|
| Blackburn |
4 |
12 |
| Blackpool |
29 |
12 |
| Burnley |
47 |
12 |
| Chorley |
16 |
9 |
| Hyde |
17 |
12 |
| Hyndburn |
23 |
12 |
| Lancaster |
0 |
12 |
| Pendle |
42 |
12 |
| Preston |
159 |
10 |
| Ribble Valley |
84 |
12 |
| Rossendale |
4 |
12 |
| South Ribble |
5 |
9 |
| West Lancashire |
40 |
12 |
| Wyre |
24 |
12 |
| Central Lancashine New Town |
624 |
12 |
| Skelmersdale New Town |
16 |
12 |
70W* 96 previously reported starts withdrawn.
† 61 previously reported starts withdrawn.