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Right to Buy Scheme: Chelmsford

Volume 487: debated on Monday 9 February 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much local authority housing stock in West Chelmsford constituency has been sold under the right-to-buy scheme in each year since 1997. (254718)

We do not have figures at constituency level, so all figures are shown for Chelmsford borough council.

The following table shows the number of local authority right to buy sales in the borough of Chelmsford , for each year since 1997-98. Chelmsford borough council transferred its housing stock to registered social landlords (RSLs) in March 2002. There have consequently been no sales of local authority housing stock under the scheme in Chelmsford since that date.

The preserved right to buy scheme is available to RSL tenants who were formerly local authority secure tenants and moved to RSL landlords with their homes under the stock transfers. Figures for preserved right to buy sales alone are not available at local authority level, but combined figures for RSL right to buy, right to buy and right to acquire sales are available, and the following shows these figures for the borough of Chelmsford.

LA right to buy sales in Chelmsford

RSL sales of social housing in Chelmsford

1997-98

142

1998-99

120

1999-2000

169

2000-01

156

2001-02

149

2

2002-03

0

144

2003-04

0

59

2004-05

0

36

2005-06

0

19

2006-07

0

26

2007-08

0

18

Source:

Quarterly P1B returns submitted by local authorities to Communities and Local Government, and Regulatory and Statistical Returns (RSR) submitted by Social Landlords to the Tenant Services Authority.