HC Deb 08 March 2000 vol 345 cc675-81W
Mr. Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list those local authorities in England which (i) have completed an LSVT of housing stock and (ii) are currently undertaking an LSVT. [113598]

Mullin

I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 22 Febtruary 2000,Official Report, columns 923–25W. Report, columns 923-25W.

Mr. Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the average turn around times between tenants of local authority housing stock for each authority in England. [113597]

Mr. Mullin

Local authorities in England provide estimates of the average time taken to relet their housing stock on their annual Housing Investment Programme (HIP) Operational Information returns. Information reported for lettings during 1998–99 is given in the table. There are variations in the way local authorities maintain lettings records and compile these estimates, and comparisons between authorities should be treated with caution.

Average time to relet local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
North East
Alnwick 35
Berwick-upon-Tweed 9
Blyth Valley 25
Castle Morpeth 28
Chester-le-Street 55
Darlington 31
Derwentside 16
Durham 63
Easington 66
Gateshead 32
Hartlepool 31
Middlesbrough 68
Newcastle upon Tyne 34
North Tyneside 33
Redcar and Cleveland 31
Sedgefield 28
South Tyneside 19
Stockton-on-Tees 40
Sunderland 30
Teesdale 30
Tynedale 24
Wansbeck 33
Wear Valley 58
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley 35
Bradford 52
Calderdale 50
Craven 18
Doncaster 68
East Riding of Yorkshire 53
Hambleton2 0
Harrogate 13
Kingston upon Hull 43
Kirklees 31
Leeds 42
North East Lincolnshire 63
North Lincolnshire 77
Richmondshire 35
Rotherham 73
Ryedale2 0
Scarborough 23
Selby 14
Sheffield 42
Wakefield 11
York 25
East Midlands
Amber Valley 22
Ashfield 37
Bassetlaw 82
Average time to relet local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
Blaby 26
Bolsover 28
Boston 86
Broxtowe 32
Charnwood 48
Chesterfield 18
Corby 50
Daventry 54
Derby 33
Derbyshire Dales 16
East Lindsey2 0
East Northamptonshire 53
Erewash 41
Gedling 31
Harborough 55
High Peak 29
Hinckley and Bosworth 35
Kettering 34
Leicester 40
Lincoln 37
Mansfield 50
Melton 52
Newark and Sherwood 32
North East Derbyshire 39
North Kesteven 53
North West Leicestershire 52
Northampton 42
Nottingham City 25
Oadby and Wigston 12
Rushcliffe 26
Rutland 24
South Derbyshire 25
South Holland 24
South Kesteven 33
South Northamptonshire 31
Wellingborough 57
West Lindsey 49
East of England
Babergh 25
Basildon 35
Bedford2 20
Braintree 14
Breckland2 0
Brentwood 35
Broadland2 0
Broxbourne 26
Cambridge 52
Castle Point 44
Chelmsford 33
Colchester 15
Dacorum 51
East Cambridgeshire2 0
East Hertfordshire 25
Epping Forest 51
Fenland 30
Forest Heath 32
Great Yarmouth 27
Harlow 49
Hertsmere2 0
Huntingdonshire 25
Ipswich 22
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 23
Luton 38
Maldon2 0
Mid Bedfordshire 3
Mid Suffolk 34
North Hertfordshire 45
North Norfolk 23
Norwich 37
Peterborough 53
Rochford 31
South Bedfordshire 29
Average time to relet local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
South Cambridgeshire 35
South Norfolk 19
Southend-on-Sea 67
St. Albans 27
St. Edmundsbury 30
Stevenage 33
Suffolk Coastal2 43
Tendring 30
Three Rivers 14
Thurrock 63
Uttlesford 22
Watford 49
Waveney 41
Welwyn Hatfield 50
Barking and Dagenham 51
Barnet 54
Bexley2 0
Brent 39
Bromley2 0
Camden 52
City of London 18
Croydon 33
Ealing 45
Enfield 77
Greenwich 55
Hackney 78
Hammersmith and Fulham 43
Haringey 64
Harrow 46
Havering 32
Hillingdon 30
Hounslow 46
Islington 162
Kensington and Chelsea 37
Kingston upon Thames 64
Lambeth 38
Lewisham 50
Merton 35
Newham 53
Redbride 57
Richmond upon Thames 110
Southwark 54
Sutton 56
Tower Hamlets 35
Waltham Forest 70
Wandsworth 46
Westminster 28
South East
Adur 27
Arun 50
Ashford 25
Aylesbury Vale 52
Basingstoke and Deane2 0
Bracknell Forest 34
Brighton and Hove 53
Canterbury 27
Cherwell 26
Chichester 20
Chiltern2 0
Crawley 46
Dartford 28
Dover 54
East Hampshire2 0
Eastbourne 21
Eastleigh2 0
Elmbridge 45
Epsom and Ewell2 7
Fareham 20
Gosport 30
Gravesham 50
Guildford 51
Average time to relet local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
Hart2 0
Hastings2 0
Havant2 0
Horsham 38
Isle of Wight2 21
Lewes 31
Maidstone 38
Mid Sussex2 0
Milton Keynes 40
Mole Valley 58
New Forest 22
Oxford 36
Portsmouth 4
Reading 28
Reigate and Banstead 58
Rother2 0
Runnymede 38
Rushmoor2 0
Sevenoaks2 0
Shepway 22
Slough 29
South Bucks2 0
South Oxfordshire2 0
Southampton 46
Spelthorne2 0
Surrey Heath2 0
Swale2 0
Tandridge 40
Test Valley 15
Thanet 30
The Medway Towns 42
Tonbridge and Malling2 0
Tunbridge Wells2 14
Vale of White Horse2 46
Waverley 33
Wealden 30
West Berkshire2 8
West Oxfordshire 35
Winchester 15
Windsor and Maidenhead2 2
Woking 28
Wokingham 25
Worthing2 18
Wycombe 20
South West
Bath and North East Somerset2 0
Bournemouth 46
Bristol 22
Caradon 27
Carrick 19
Cheltenham 52
Christchurch2 0
Cotswold2 0
East Devon 33
East Dorset2 0
Exeter 22
Forest of Dean 30
Gloucester 20
Isles of Scilly 7
Kennet2 0
Kerrier2 0
Mendip 14
Mid Devon 27
North Cornwall 18
North Devon 17
North Dorset2 0
North Somerset 27
North Wiltshire2 0
Penwith2 0
Plymouth 4
Poole 38
Purbeck 25
Average time to relat local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
Restormel 39
Salisbury 19
Sedgemoor 12
South Gloucestershire 33
South Hams2 0
South Somerset2 3
Stroud 26
Swindon 15
Taunton Deane 14
Teignbridge 29
Tewkesbury2 0
Torbay 26
Torridge 29
West Devon2 0
West Dorset2 0
West Somerset2 0
West Wiltshire 3
Weymouth and Portland 17
West Midlands
Birmingham 47
Bridgnorth 40
Bromsgrove 34
Cannock Chase 28
Coventry 35
Dudley 115
East Staffordshire 46
Herefordshire 13
Lichfield2 0
Malvern Hills2 0
Newcastle-under-Lyme 47
North Shropshire 40
North Warwickshire 35
Nuneaton and Bedworth 71
Oswestry 45
Redditch 20
Rugby 10
Sandwell 69
Shrewsbury and Atcham 26
Solihull 35
South Shropshire2 0
South Staffordshire2 0
Stafford 39
Staffordshire Moorlands 41
Stoke-on-Trent 46
Stratford-upon-Avon2 0
Tamworth 25
Telford and Wrekin2 35
Walsall 42
Warwick 30
Wolverhampton 49
Worcester 25
Wychavon2 0
Wyre Forest 28
North West
Allerdale2 44
Barrow-in-Furness 33
Blackburn with Darwen 56
Blackpool 37
Bolton 44
Burnley 83
Bury 58
Carlisle 74
Chester 35
Chorley 45
Congleton2 0
Copeland 16
Crewe and Nantwich 41
Eden2 0
Ellesmere Port and Neston 34
Fylde 30
Halton 83
Average time to relet local authority housing stock1, 1998–99
Days
Hyndburn 37
Lancaster 26
Macclesfield 55
Manchester 24
Oldham 44
Pendle 35
Preston 36
Ribble Valley 21
Rochdale 40
Rossendale 50
Salford 54
South Lakeland 23
South Ribble2 0
Stockport 37
Tameside 30
Trafford 40
Vale Royal 35
Warrington 37
West Lancashire 35
Wigan 28
Wyre2 0
Knowsley 25
Liverpool 68
Sefton 44
St. Helens 38
Wirral 44
1 Excludes dwellings let after major works, mutual exchanges and tenancy successions.
2 Denotes authorities which had transferred all or most of their housing stock, under Large Scale Voluntar Transfer arrangement, by 31 March 1999
3 Not available

Source:

DETR Housing Investment Programme returns 1999

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