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Local Authorities (Building For Sale)

Volume 20: debated on Monday 15 March 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the local authorities which have built houses for sale since 1979.

The following 125 English local authorities have reported building for sale activity, including building by developers under licence from authorities, during the period January 1979 to December 1981.

Local authorities reporting building for sale activity
during 1979 to 1981

North, excluding Cumbria

  • Middlesbrough
  • Derwentside
  • Durham
  • Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • North Tyneside
  • Sunderland

Yorkshire and Humberside

  • Holderness
  • East Yorkshire
  • Scunthorpe
  • Craven
  • Richmondshire
  • Ryedale
  • Selby
  • York
  • Sheffield

East Midlands

  • South Derbyshire
  • Charnwood
  • Hinckley and Bosworth
  • Leicester
  • East Northamptonshire
  • Wellingborough
  • Ashfield
  • Broxtowe
  • Nottingham

Eastern

  • Aylesbury Vale
  • South Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridge
  • East Cambridgeshire
  • South Cambridgeshire
  • Basildon
  • Epping Forest
  • Southend on Sea
  • Broxbourne
  • Dacorum
  • North Hertfordshire
  • Stevenage
  • Three Rivers
  • Welwyn Hatfield
  • Babergh

Greater London

  • Greater London Council
  • Barnet
  • Croydon
  • Enfield
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Merton
  • Newham
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Southwark
  • Sutton
  • Wandsworth

South-East

  • Bracknell
  • Newbury
  • Reading
  • Slough
  • Brighton
  • Wealden
  • Eastleigh
  • Fareham
  • Hart
  • New Forest
  • Test Valley
  • Winchester
  • Ashford
  • Canterbury
  • Rochester upon Medway
  • Sevenoaks
  • Tonbridge and Malling
  • Tunbridge Wells
  • South Oxfordshire
  • Vale of White Horse
  • West Oxfordshire
  • Mole Valley
  • Spelthorne
  • Waverley
  • Woking
  • Chichester
  • Horsham
  • Mid Sussex

South West

  • Carrick
  • North Cornwall
  • East Devon
  • Exeter
  • Plymouth
  • West Devon
  • Bournemouth
  • Weymouth and Portland
  • Wimborne
  • Cheltenham
  • Cotswold
  • Stroud
  • Sedgemoor
  • Kennet
  • North Wiltshire
  • Salisbury
  • Thamesdown
  • West Wiltshire

West Midlands

  • Hereford
  • Redditch
  • Bridgnorth
  • North Shropshire
  • East Staffordshire
  • Lichfield
  • Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Tamworth
  • Dudley
  • Sandwell
  • Solihull
  • Walsall

North West, including Cumbria

  • Congleton
  • Allerdale
  • South Lakeland
  • Blackburn
  • Blackpool
  • Preston
  • Ribble Valley
  • South Ribble
  • Bolton
  • Manchester
  • Oldham
  • Tameside
  • Trafford
  • Liverpool