HC Deb 19 November 1992 vol 214 cc307-8W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will give the number of households on the waiting list of Pendle borough council for each year since 1982;

(2) what percentage of (a) the local authority, (b) housing associations, (c) the private sector and (d) the total housing stock in Pendle was assessed as requiring major expenditure to bring it up to standard, in each year since 1982.

Mr. Baldry

Local authorities report in their annual housing investment programme—HIP—returns the number of dwellings in their own stock that are unfit, not unfit but in need of renovation, and those designated under the housing defects legislation and not yet reinstated, along with estimates of those owned by housing associations and in the private sector.

Since 1986, local authorities also report the number of households on their council housing waiting lists.

The information reported by Pendle is as follows:

Percentage of housing stock

requiring capital expenditure
LA12 HA Private3 Total123 Number of

households on

waiting list
1982 26 0 40 37 n/a
1983 24 0 38 35 n/a
1984 23 0 37 34 n/a
1985 34 11 37 37 n/a
1986 39 14 37 39 1,206
1987 36 14 45 44 1,708
1988 34 5 53 50 1,481
1989 20 20 53 48 1,598
1990 22 9 48 44 1,507
1991 78 8 51 54 2,597
1992 86 9 55 58 2,901
1 Pendle BC has provided amended local authority and total figures for 1991 since the HIP1 returns were finalised.
2 The information collected for local authority dwellings that were not unfit but in need of renovation in 1991 and 1992 relates to all dwellings requiring capital expenditure whereas, prior to 1991, a lower limit of £3,000 was imposed.
3 The information collected for private sector dwellings that were not unfit but in need of renovation in 1991 and 1992 relates only to dwellings whose owners were likely to be eligible for discretionary renovation grants.
4 In 1990 Pendle borough council relaxed the conditions of entry to its waiting list for council housing.