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Empty Property: South West

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many empty dwellings there are in the South West region, broken down by local authority area. (275542)

Details of the number of empty dwellings in each local authority area in the South West region are shown in the following table.

Number of empty dwellings

Bath and North East Somerset

1,881

Bournemouth

3,538

Bristol

5,217

Caradon

1,588

Carrick

1,604

Cheltenham

2,072

Christchurch

722

Cotswold

839

East Devon

1,908

East Dorset

890

Exeter

783

Forest of Dean

1,170

Gloucester

1,881

Isles of Scilly

6

Kennet

1,047

Kerrier

1,597

Mendip

1,354

Mid Devon

989

North Cornwall

1,746

North Devon

1,312

North Dorset

896

North Somerset

2,241

North Wiltshire

1,542

Penwith

1,084

Plymouth

2,967

Poole

2,098

Purbeck

412

Restormel

1,393

Salisbury

933

Sedgemoor

1,575

South Gloucestershire

2,289

South Hams

1,392

South Somerset

2,410

Stroud

1,342

Swindon

1,714

Taunton Deane

1,431

Teignbridge

1,948

Tewkesbury

1,137

Torbay

3,293

Torridge

1,033

West Devon

875

West Dorset

1,244

West Somerset

570

West Wiltshire

1,489

Weymouth and Portland

820

Total South West

70,272

The data are as 6 October 2008 and are as reported to Communities and Local Government by all billing authorities in England on their annual Council Taxbase (CTB) and CTB (Supplementary) returns.