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Housing

Volume 709: debated on Monday 16 March 2009

Questions

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Andrews on 2 March (WA 121–22), how many new homes were built in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; how many in the Eastern region; and how many in each county in the Eastern region. [HL2069]

The table below shows the number of house building completions in the East of England broken down by county and unitary authority in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 calendar years.

New Build Completions, 2005-07

2005

2006

2007

East of England region

20,110

21,610

22,830

Luton Borough Council UA

237

238

292

Peterborough City Council UA

714

1,281

936

Southend-on-Sea Council UA

415

226

284

Thurrock Council UA

827

602

246

Bedfordshire County Council

1,597

incomplete data

2,100

Cambridgeshire County Council

incomplete data

incomplete data

incomplete data

Essex County Council

incomplete data

4,857

5,323

Hertfordshire County Council

incomplete data

incomplete data

incomplete data

Norfolk County Council

3,146

3,059

3,610

Suffolk County Council

2,919

incomplete data

incomplete data

Source: Local authority P2 quarterly house building and National House-Building Council returns submitted to CLG.

The regional and national totals include imputation for missing local authority returns. The county and unitary authority figures are as reported by local authorities and the National House-Building Council; no figure is given where a county or unitary authority has one or more missing (local authority) quarterly returns as the full level of house building activity in the local area is not known.

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government what were their targets for the total number of new homes in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008. [HL2070]

Detailed housing targets are not directly set by government, but are set out in regional and local plans which are developed through regional and local planning processes. The Government set the overall strategy for housing supply in England. The housing Green Paper, Homes for the Future: More Affordable, More Sustainable (CM 7191), published in July 2007, set out a target to increase housing supply to 240,000 additional homes per annum by 2016.