Information is available on numbers of households rather than people. The number of households on the waiting list for social housing in (a) each English region (b) each London local authority; and the percentage change on the previous year is given in the following tables.
2005 2006 Percentage change on previous year North East 89,747 95,359 6 North West 200,600 217,397 8 Yorkshire and the Humber 227,430 247,499 9 East Midlands 137,095 133,823 -2 West Midlands 137,992 126,629 -8 East of England 129,184 135,444 5 London 309,072 328,116 6 South East 181,196 195,700 8 South West 131,193 151,220 15 England 1,543,509 1,631,187 6 Note: As reported by local authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return (HSSA)
2005 2006 Percentage change on previous year Barking and Dagenham 2,321 4,575 97 Barnet 13,627 16,470 21 Bexley 4,528 5,955 32 Brent 17,351 16,398 -5 Bromley 2,998 4,282 43 Camden 16,532 9,562 -42 City of London 1,204 1,427 19 Croydon 8,856 9,271 5 Ealing 14,324 15,936 11 Enfield 7,872 7,055 -10 Greenwich 7,666 10,239 34 Hackney 7,744 8,815 14 Hammersmith and Fulham 8,384 7,795 -7 Haringey 19,930 24,939 25 Harrow 4,944 5,533 12 Havering 3,477 3,876 11 Hillingdon 7,471 7,136 -4 Hounslow 10,382 11,666 12 Islington 6,326 8,489 34 Kensington and Chelsea 9,436 10,798 14 Kingston upon Thames 4,903 5,726 17 Lambeth 10,648 13,611 28 Lewisham 18,279 17,535 -4 Merton 5,188 3,278 -37 Newham 25,317 29,574 17 Redbridge 7,941 10,807 36 Richmond upon Thames 4,898 5,726 17 Southwark 7,548 8,057 7 Button 3,724 3,408 -8 Tower Hamlets 21,183 12,926 -39 Waltham Forest 8,837 11,059 25 Wandsworth 8,668 8,952 3 Westminster 6,565 7,240 10 Note: As reported by local authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return (HSSA)
Local authorities in England report the numbers of households on their housing waiting list as at 1 April in their annual Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix returns. Not everyone on the waiting list is necessarily in urgent housing need. The waiting list includes those who consider social housing as their preferred or one of a number of housing options, and those who decide to get onto the waiting list ladder before they need or want to move house—particularly where the priority system is heavily based on waiting time.
The constituency of Taunton covers the whole of Taunton Deane district council but also includes a large part of West Somerset district council. Information is not collected at the constituency level, only at local authority level and includes households rather than people. Information on length of waiting time on a housing list for households is not held centrally.
However, the number of households on the waiting list for social housing in Taunton Deane, as at 1 April each year, is published on the Communities and Local Government website in Table 600. The link for this table is as follows:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/embedded_object.asp?id=l163853
Local authorities in England report the numbers of households on their housing waiting list as at 1 April in their annual Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix returns. Not everyone on the waiting list is necessarily in urgent housing need. The waiting list includes those who consider social housing as their preferred or one of a number of housing options, and those who decide to get onto the waiting list ladder before they need or want to move house—particularly where the priority system is heavily based on waiting time.