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Housing: Low Incomes

Volume 462: debated on Tuesday 10 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many social housing properties were made available by property developers in each London borough in each of the last five years. (145495)

The Housing Act 2004 gave the Housing Corporation the power to provide grant to fund affordable housing to other bodies such as private developers. In 2006-07, a total of 260 social rented homes were provided by non-registered social landlords (RSL) through Housing Corporation's affordable housing programme. None of these homes were in London.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in how many planning permissions for housing development the granting of permission incorporated a condition that a proportion of the properties built should be affordable in each of the last 10 years for which records are available; and what proportion of new homes granted planning permission in this period were affordable. (148174)

This information is not held centrally.

Communities and Local Government collects quarterly aggregate statistics on development control statistics from all local planning authorities in England. These statistics also include the number of planning decisions granted for major and minor developments relating to residential developments. However, we do not collect data on individual planning applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of planning permissions granted in each of the last 10 years for which records are available for residential development which included an element of affordable housing have been (a) started, (b) completed and (c) occupied. (148254)

This information is not collated in the format requested.

Communities and Local Government collects quarterly aggregate statistics on development control statistics from all local planning authorities in England. These statistics also include the number of planning decisions granted for major and minor developments relating to residential development. However, we do not collect data on individual planning applications.