Housing (Hansard, 30 October 1987)

§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Information on the number of dwellings below tolerable standard as at 31 March is submitted annually to the Department. However, not all authorities provide information by type of tenure, and not all 1987 returns have been received. The latest figures available are given in table 1.

Information on dwellings requiring comprehensive modernisation, requiring major repairs, and affected by dampness or condensation is only held centrally for local authority stock. The latest figures available, obtained from housing plan checklists, are given in table 2.

It is for individual housing authorities to decide what measures to take to deal with problems they identify, and to programme expenditure accordingly within the resources available to them.

Table 1
Houses below tolerable standard as at 31 March 1987¹
Areas	Year¹	Total number of houses BTS	of which
		Public sector	Private sector
Berwickshire	1987	888	0	888
Ettrick and Lauderdale	1987	586	6	580
Roxburgh	1986	400	..	..
Tweeddale	1985	200	..	..
Clackmannan	1987	455	0	455
Falkirk	1987	629	31	598
Stirling	1987	444	9	435
Annandale and Eskdale	1986	251	0	251
Nithsdale	1987	826	0	826
Stewartry	1987	166	0	166
Wigtown	1987	78	..	..
Dunfermline	1986	526	15	511
Kirkcaldy	1987	751	0	751
North East Fife	1987	1,624	39	1,585
Aberdeen²	1987	1,988	²471	..
Banff and Buchan	1987	1,674	0	1,674
Gordon	1987	424	0	424
Kincardine and Deeside	1987	380	..	..
Moray	1987	1,250	46	1,204
Badenoch and Strathspey	1987	253	0	253
Caithness	1987	296	..	..
Inverness	1987	591	15	576
Lochaber	1987	139	0	139
Nairn	1987	46	0	46

491W

Areas	Year¹	Total number of houses BTS	of which
		Public sector	Private sector
Ross and Cromarty	1987	2,500	0	2,500
Skye and Lochalsh	1986	650	650	0
Sutherland	1987	521	0	521
East Lothian	1987	871	..	..
Edinburgh	1987	5,321	0	5,321
Midlothian	1987	591	..	..
West Lothian	1987	530	0	530
Argyll and Bute	1987	4,180	0	4,180
Bearsden and Milngavie	1986	75	18	57
Clydebank	1987	32	18	14
Clydesdale	1987	372	2	370
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	1987	61	0	61
Cumnock and Doon Valley	1987	192	43	149
Cunninghame	1986	183	0	183
Dumbarton	1986	125	13	112
East Kilbride	1987	109	0	109
Eastwood	1987	34	0	34
Glasgow	1986	11,452	..	..
Hamilton	1987	850	0	850
Inverclyde	1986	355	²8	118

Table 2
Estimated number of Local Authority dwellings at 31 March 1986
Areas	¹Requiring comprehensive Modernisation	¹Requiring major repairs	Requiring treatment for
			(a) Dampness only	(b) Condensation only	(c) Both condensation and dampness	(d) = (b) + (c) ²Total Condensation
Berwickshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ettrick and Lauderdale	1,076	0	0	..	..	60
Roxburgh	191	1,040	0	80	370	450
Tweeddale	50	274	0	196	0	196
Clackmannan	2,669	3,706	200	3,202	800	4,002
Falkirk	7,252	14,702	500	1,000	5,500	6,500
Stirling	5,230	360	150	4,065	0	4,065
Annandale and Eskdale	1,324	0	0	1,224	0	1,224
Nithsdale	5,956	0	0	4,058	41	4,099
Stewartry	769	0	0	116	0	116
Wigtown	2,569	0	30	200	20	220
Dunfermline	2,015	181	15	2,312	0	2,312
Kirkcaldy	8,920	40	0	0	4,150	4,150
North East Fife	1,433	217	200	2,000	20	2020
Aberdeen	12,967	2,091	..	15,000	..	15,000
Banff and Buchan	1,660	1,200	..	..	..	..
Gordon	0	376	0	167	289	376
Kincardine and Deeside	228	0	0	380	488	868
Moray	370	1,372	77	317	0	317
Badenoch and Strathspey	10	0	0	100	0	100
Caithness	1,178	145	0	0	11	11
Inverness	904	380	0	1,000	0	1000
Lochaber	1,195	108	450	962	400	1,360
Nairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ross and Cromarty	489	549	0	1,134	122	1,256
Skye and Lochalsh	122	0	0	..	..	354
Sutherland	236	206	0	260	0	260
East Lothian	1,606	1,218	34	215	1,688	1,903
Edinburgh	7,810	5,357	610	15,524	1,120	16,644
Midlothian	122	0	0	840	90	930
West Lothian	6,300	6,200	0	2,490	0	2,490
Argyll and Bute	964	2,000	500	659	0	659
Bearsden and Milngavie	144	0	0	0	0	0
Clydebank	462	4,667	60	0	1,250	1,250
Clydesdale	9,624	8,640	0	..	..	1,030
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	2,245	102	..	..	..	..
Cumnock and Doon Valley	8,850	1,371	0	0	4,635	4,635
Cunninghame	9,559	17,794	200	1,578	243	1,821
Dumbarton	³4,184	3,215	849	1,813	2,574	4,387
East Kilbride	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eastwood	8	66	0	0	0	0
Glasgow	⁴43,736	48,803	16,700	31,500	15,400	46,900

492W

Areas	Year¹	Total number of houses BTS	of which
		Public sector	Private sector
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	1987	110	8	102
Kyle and Carrick	1987	341	3	338
Monklands	1987	245	0	245
Motherwell	1987	636	183	453
Renfrew	1986	2,000	380	1,620
Strathkelvin	1987	11	0	11
Angus	1987	1,000	7	993
Dundee	1986	1,470	12	1,458
Perth and Kinross	1987	711	0	711
Orkney Islands	1987	1,150	6	1,144
Shetland Islands	1987	952	0	952
Western Isles	1987	1,680	..	..
¹ Where figures relating to 31 March 1987 are not available the most recent year's figures have been shown. Figures for the private sector include owner occupied and private rented houses, while those for the public sector include local authority, new town, SSHA, HA and other.
² Local authority only.
.. Not available.

493W

Areas	¹Requiring comprehensive Modernisation	¹Requiring major repairs	Requiring treatment for
			(a) Dampness only	(b) Condensation only	(c) Both condensation and dampness	(d) = (b) + (c) ²Total Condensation
Hamilton	2,912	0	7,509	495	7,761	8,256
Inverclyde	6,572	6,000	0	3,000	3,000	6,000
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	7,577	457	0	0	5,689	5,689
Kyle and Carrick	4,894	75	24	187	577	764
Monklands	2,729	0	450	550	150	700
Motherwell	5,775	4,600	3,500	2,000	2,200	4,200
Renfrew	22,093	1,910	0	0	12,500	12,500
Strathkelvin	2,346	1,119	0	4,277	0	4,277
Angus	1,405	234	0	2,480	20	2,500
Dundee	10,366	11,810	2,900	10,100	2,515	12,615
Perth and Kinross	800	621	500	6,213	1,000	7,213
Orkney Islands	30	0	0	0	0	0
Shetland Islands	925	534	549	159	343	502
Western Isles	675	0	135	860	335	1,195
.. Not available
¹ There is thought to be an element of double counting between these two categories.
² Some authorities were unable to provide a breakdown of the condensation total as required in columns (b) and (c).
³ Includes post-1955 non-traditional dwellings requiring partial modernisation or rewiring.
⁴ Includes post-1955 non-traditional dwellings requiring partial modernisation.