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Empty Property: Tyne and Wear

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many empty properties there were in each tenure sector in each local authority in Tyne and Wear in each April from 2004 to 2009. (302538)

Details of the number of empty domestic dwellings in each of the five local authorities in the Tyne and Wear area for 2004 to 2009 are shown in the following table.

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Gateshead

5,488

6,162

5,180

4,989

5,715

5,583

Newcastle upon Tyne

6,141

5,829

5,595

5,710

4,811

4,385

North Tyneside

2,877

2,818

2,841

2,992

3,186

3,209

South Tyneside

1,997

2,282

2,396

2,411

2,389

2,305

Sunderland

4,114

4,477

4,652

4,431

4,440

4,183

The data are both short-term and long-term empty dwellings as reported annually by all billing authorities in England in October of the year. Data are not collected in April.

No estimates of empty non-domestic properties have been published.