{"id":25668,"date":"2020-03-13T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2020-03-13T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:16:21","slug":"bre-on-the-housing-stock-of-the-united-kingdom-via-designing-buildings-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25668","title":{"rendered":"BRE on The Housing Stock of the United Kingdom \u2013 via Designing Buildings Wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A BRE Trust report published in February 2020, The Housing Stock of The United Kingdom<\/em>, combines the findings of housing condition surveys in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in a single UK-wide report, featured by Designing Buildings Wiki<\/a> (DBW) \u2013 host platform for the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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DBW writes:<\/p>\n

With a legacy of massive\u00a0house building<\/a>\u00a0during the industrial revolution, the\u00a0UK\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0housing stock<\/a>\u00a0is the oldest in\u00a0Europe<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 probably the world \u2013 and is only very slowly being replaced. Older homes often present challenges when making them healthy,\u00a0safe<\/a>\u00a0and suitable for the future.\u00a0Housing<\/a>\u00a0condition surveys<\/a>\u00a0provide the detailed\u00a0information<\/a>\u00a0needed to inform the\u00a0housing policies<\/a>\u00a0required to deliver better homes.<\/p>\n

Surveys<\/a>\u00a0in the four\u00a0UK<\/a>\u00a0nations are conducted separately over different timescales, with different sampling criteria and\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0techniques. However, the key\u00a0information<\/a>\u00a0they use to describe\u00a0housing<\/a>\u00a0in the four nations is comparable, and in 2017 the four\u00a0surveys<\/a>\u00a0were \u2013 for the first time in nine years \u2013 all being conducted during the same year.<\/p>\n

This presented the opportunity to gather the published findings from these four\u00a0surveys<\/a>\u00a0and combine them into a single\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0providing UK-wide\u00a0information<\/a>\u00a0on:<\/p>\n