HC Deb 28 January 1987 vol 109 cc242-3W
Mr. Deakins

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many houses have been built by each borough and district council in East Sussex in each year since 1974; and what are the projected figures for each council until 1990–91;

(2) how many units of sheltered accommodation have been built by each borough and district council in East Sussex, both directly and in partnership with a housing association or trust, in each year since 1974; and what are the projected figures for each council until 1990–91.

Mr. Tracey

Reported completion of dwellings built for each of the authorities and, of these, the numbers from 1982 to 1985 which were designed for the elderly with warden supervision, appear in the following issues of "Local Housing Statistics" which are available in the Library.

All dwellings
Period Issue
1974 33
1975 37
1976 41
1977 45
1978 49
1979 59
1980 to 1983 73
1984 77
1985 78
1st half 1986 79
Sheltered dwellings
1982 66
1983 70
1984 74
1985 78

Sheltered dwelling completions were not identified in returns up to June 1980. The numbers reported in 1980, 1981 and the first half of 1986 were:

2nd half 1980 1981 1st half 1986
Brighton 25
Hastings 42
Wealden 42 33 50

Housebuilding returns do not identify dwellings built in partnership by councils and housing associations. The only sheltered dwellings for housing associations reported as completed in East Sussex were 19 in 1984 in Rother.

The authorities' estimates of dwellings to be completed for them in 1986–87 and programme bids for 1987–88 and 1988–89, arc in their 1982 HIP2 returns, which are also available in the Library. These figures show dwellings for the elderly and disabled separately from others, but do not distinguish sheltered dwellings.