Housing

Homes for the Future (Housing Green Paper) Local Toolkit: Empowering local communities in decisions about housing - information on local housing pressures

The government is committed to involving communities. As set out in the Housing Green Paper, local people and their representatives are entitled to be equipped with the evidence about local housing pressures, demand and supply. The links below provide some of the most useful or popular data, presented by type and other variables, including by geographical area or on a temporal basis. These information sources provide an indication of local housing pressures, to enable a community to reach its own views on the challenge its local area faces.

Future housing pressures

Household projections are produced by Communities and Local Government and are linked to the latest Office for National Statistics Sub-National Population Projections. These projections are trend based and indicate the number of additional households that would form if recent demographic trends continue.

Today's housing pressures

These tables provide data on the housing market and house prices for a local area, including the average house prices based on Land Registry data by district, from 1996 and property sales based on Land Registry data by district, from 1996.

Tables 576 and 577 provide indicators of the individual's ability to purchase a home. This is based on data comparing house prices to earnings by district, from 1997 (median and lower quartile).

Table 600 provides data on the number of households on council waiting lists for each local area.

The local response

Table 253 provides data on the number of new homes started and completed in each local area.

These tables provide data on affordable housing supply (ie social rent, and forms of intermediate tenure - including low-cost home ownership).  Data are provided by region and local authority area.

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