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Housing: Local Authorities

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local authority houses were (a) sold and (b) demolished in each London borough in each of the last five years. (154811)

The numbers of local authority homes sold and demolished in each London borough in each of the last five years are tabulated below. Figures for 2006-07 are not yet available.

Sales1 and demolitions of local authority homes: London

LA name

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Barking and Dagenham

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

n/a

585

653

431

249

Barnet

Demolitions

0

0

n/a

0

0

Sales

169

n/a

251

n/a

47

Bexley

Demolitions

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Sales

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Brent

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

159

157

185

n/a

71

Bromley

Demolitions

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Sales

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Camden

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

671

477

518

433

137

City of London

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

53

53

77

54

13

Croydon

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

259

242

324

182

42

Ealing

Demolitions

100

0

0

0

0

Sales

309

n/a

339

176

51

Enfield

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

210

279

382

216

67

Greenwich

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

2

Sales

470

561

701

409

127

Hackney

Demolitions

213

188

175

0

213

Sales

n/a

728

656

709

202

Hammersmith and Fulham

Demolitions

102

0

159

24

19

Sales

212

n/a

228

215

116

Haringey

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

n/a

363

500

473

226

Harrow

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

88

69

81

54

32

Havering

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

219

216

258

124

89

Hillingdon

Demolitions

28

0

0

0

2

Sales

163

163

177

105

76

Hounslow

Demolitions

253

0

0

0

0

Sales

n/a

n/a

372

166

43

Islington

Demolitions

54

0

0

0

0

Sales

840

677

743

n/a

n/a

Kensington and Chelsea

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

42

43

66

49

13

Kingston upon Thames

Demolitions

0

n/a

0

0

0

Sales

31

70

64

36

14

Lambeth

Demolitions

0

0

0

20

20

Sales

n/a

n/a

n/a

959

n/a

Lewisham

Demolitions

339

254

84

243

161

Sales

n/a

1,000

n/a

n/a

343

Merton

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

164

195

192

122

45

Newham

Demolitions

0

0

182

85

0

Sales

611

739

888

648

211

Redbridge

Demolitions

0

0

n/a

0

0

Sales

100

119

125

115

71

Richmond upon Thames

Demolitions

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Sales

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

LSVT

Southwark

Demolitions

519

360

97

0

278

Sales

943

990

1,445

1,754

769

Sutton

Demolitions

147

202

173

129

60

Sales

130

150

145

59

15

Tower Hamlets

Demolitions

42

44

195

0

45

Sales

1,009

1,213

815

866

400

Waltham Forest

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

189

n/a

288

211

53

Wandsworth

Demolitions

0

0

0

0

0

Sales

n/a

253

312

367

137

Westminster

Demolitions

12

0

0

0

0

Sales

204

254

298

149

40

n/a = data not available

LSVT = Large scale voluntary transfer (no local authority housing in district)

1 Includes right to buy sales, sales to sitting tenants and other sales to owner occupiers. Source:

Local authority returns (P1B, BPSA)