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Improvement Grants

Volume 919: debated on Friday 19 November 1976

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to raise the £175 rateable value upper limit eligibility for obtaining improvement grants, at least in all classified housing action areas.

AssociationProject addressNumber of unitsTotal estimated cost
£
ChaliceConvent of the Assumption, Ramsgate2552,850,000
ColumbusStround Coppice, Freshwater, Isle of Wight33551,000
Russellde Walden Lodge, Meads Road, Eastbourne53642,000
Orbit GeneralTonbridge Road, Maidstone36544,000
Paddington ChurchesBarton Lane, Abingdon2353,014,000
HildenDyers Road, Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester1121,499,000
Mid-EssexPowershall End, Witham1011,362,000
PinecroftRoman Road, Boreham971,750,000
WardenBrookside Road, Katherines, Harlow57705,000
Cheltenham and DistrictMarsh Lane, Cheltenham46594,000
Devon CommunityHeadway Cross, Teignmouth56639,000
Devon CommunityRowes Farm, Willand20295,000
London and QuadrantBriar Hill, Northampton1642,003,000
Loughborough and DistrictLeicester Road, Shepshed (Phase II to V)4364,500,000
SuttonRectory Farm, Northampton1021,322,000
DerngateThe Paddock, Little Billing, Northampton52591,000
OrbitLocksley Road, Wellesbourne1882,032,000
SuttonMalinslee Six, Telford1341,470,000
Rural MidlandsLuston, Leominster42506,000
MercianBrookside, Sturchley, Telford44481,000
North BritishCorporation Farm, Harrogate1001,051,000
EborCambridge Hotel, Scarborough40372,000
Bradford and NorthernElland Road, Ripponden24267,000
LovettHowe Lane, Gox Hill, Lincolnshire50533,000
Preston RoseClifton House, Watling Street Road, Fulwood85862,000
Second CollingwoodThe Croft, Middleton95659,000
First Northern CountiesScale Hall Farm, Lancaster2402,902,000
These projects comprise 2,897 units, with a total estimated cost of £33,996,000. Expenditure in 1977–78 was estimated at £11,600,000.