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Housing: Low Incomes
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many shared equity homes are on the National Register of Social Housing in England. [153711]
Mr. Iain Wright: The National Register of Social Housing recorded 4,221 dwellings in shared ownership in England in July 2007. This is 1.3 per cent. of the 318,976 dwellings for which the category of provision had been provided by local authorities and housing associations.
In July 2007 the National Register of Social Housing contained records of 1.19 million dwellings out of a total of 4 million. Participation by landlords is at present discretionary. Landlords have only provided the category of provision information for 318,976 dwellings. Without this we are not able to identify those in shared ownership. We are working with local authorities, and, through the Housing Corporation, with housing associations to speed up the capture of data and complete the information on category of provision and other attributes.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which Minister approved the establishment of the National Register of Social Housing; and on what date approval was given. [153905]
Mr. Iain Wright: My right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham, (Keith Hill) then Minister of Housing and Local Government, approved the establishment of the National Register of Social Housing on 13 September 2004.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the (a) Social Homebuy, ( b) Open Markets Homebuy and (c) New Build Homebuy schemes apply to social tenants in Wales. [153906]
Yvette Cooper: The Social, Open Market and New Build HomeBuy schemes operate in England to help social tenants, key workers and other priority first time buyers into home ownership.
Housing in Wales is the responsibility of the Welsh Assembly Government.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether her Department has a target for the number of Social HomeBuy sales between 2005 and 2010. [153911]
Yvette Cooper: The Government have not set a specific target for sales under the Social HomeBuy pilot scheme which runs until March 2008. Final numbers will be dependent on participation by local authorities and housing associations offering the scheme and the take up from tenants. The scheme is one of a range of options which aims to help social tenants, key workers and other first time buyers into home ownership.
As announced in the Housing Green Paper: ‘Homes for the future: more affordable’, more sustainable on 23
July, we want to see the opportunity of Social HomeBuy offered more widely by landlords and we will announce further proposals later this year.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the business case for the National Register of Social Housing. [153913]
Mr. Iain Wright: The latest version of the business case for the National Register of Social Housing has been placed in the Library of the House, as requested.
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many private developments have met the 50 per cent. affordable housing target since its inception, broken down by London borough. [154055]
Mr. Iain Wright: The information requested is not held centrally. The Mayor of London's 50 per cent. affordable housing target is a strategic target for London as a whole, and not a requirement for each individual planning application. Planning applications for housing development in London are primarily the responsibility of the boroughs, who consult the Mayor of London on a limited number of applications that raise issues of strategic importance.
Housing: Parking
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what changes have been made to the recommendations in Planning Policy Statement 3 on the minimum and maximum amount of car parking in new residential developments. [154074]
Mr. Iain Wright: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 31 July 2007, Official Report, column1674W.
Housing: Peterborough
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what percentage of (a) housing association and (b) private sector housing within Peterborough constituency was judged to be unfit in each year since 1997. [154068]
Mr. Iain Wright: The percentage of (a) housing association and (b) private sector housing, within Peterborough, judged to be unfit in each year since 1997 is given in the following table. The data are as reported by the local authority.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many houses were built by (a) private sector companies, (b) housing associations and (c) the local authority within the Peterborough City Council area in each year since 1997. [154069]
Mr. Iain Wright: Information is available only by the eventual tenure of the dwelling rather than by the group that built the dwellings.
The following table tabulates the number of new build completions by tenure in Peterborough in each year since 1997-98 by tenure.
| New Build Completions by Tenure, Peterborough 1997-98 to 2006-07 | ||||
| Private Enterprise | Registered Social Landlords | Local Authority | Total | |
| Source: Returns to CLG from local authorities and the NHBC. | ||||
Housing: Renewable Energy
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the Valuation Office Agency’s estimate is of the average increase in the capital value of a domestic dwelling from (a) a small wind turbine and (b) solar panels. [153916]
Mr. Dhanda: No such estimate has been made.
Housing: Sales
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what number and proportion of homes sold each year are (a) one or two, (b) three and (c) four or more bedroomed properties. [156514]
Mr. Iain Wright: Communities and Local Government do not collect the data in the format requested. However for England we have made the following estimates based on data from the Regulated Mortgage Survey and HM Land Registry.
| Estimated number and proportion of homes sold in 2006 by number of bedrooms | ||
| Number of bedrooms | Properties sold | Proportion of all sales (percentage) |
Housing: Sewers
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the planning procedure is relating to (a) drainage and (b) sewerage for new housing developments in (i) England and (ii) Scotland; and if she will make a statement. [154115]
Yvette Cooper: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 31 July 2007, Official Report, column 1665W.
Planning procedures in Scotland are a matter for the Scottish Executive.
Housing: Unique Property Reference Number
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many domestic dwellings in England have a unique property reference number. [156519]
Mr. Iain Wright: The unique property reference number (UPRN) is maintained by the Improvement and Development Agency in the National Land and Property Gazetteer. It is not for Communities and Local Government to comment on the content of the National Land and Property Gazetteer. Further information on the National Land and Property Gazetteer can be found on the internet at www.nlpg.org.uk
Housing: Waiting Lists
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many households were on waiting lists for homes in Peterborough in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [154692]
Mr. Iain Wright: The number of households on the waiting list for social housing in Peterborough in each year since 1997, as at 1 April each year, is tabled as follows and also published on the Communities and Local Government website in Table 600. For future reference purposes, the link for this table is as follows:
| Number of households on the waiting list (excludes households looking for transfers)( 3) | ||||||||||
| Peterborough UA | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Note: As reported by local authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix Return (HSSA) | ||||||||||
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