The latest annual volume of Housing and Planning Statistics for 2009 was released on 3 December 2009 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
\nThe publication replaces the annual Housing Statistics publication and contains all the information previously contained within that publication, but with the addition of two sections on Planning Statistics.<\/p>\n
This annual compendium covers all aspects of housing and planning in England (and in some cases, tables also cover the United Kingdom). Key figures from the report show:<\/p>\n
\u2022Of the 22 million dwellings in England in 2007, 82 per cent of them houses or bungalows. In London 43 per cent of dwellings were flats.<\/p>\n
\u2022In 2008, sixty-eight per cent of households are owner occupiers, 18 per cent are social tenants and 14 per cent are private renters.<\/p>\n
\u2022Lower quartile house prices stood at 6.98 times lower quartile earnings in 2008, up from 4.72 times in 2002, but down from 7.25 times in 2007.<\/p>\n
\u2022In 2007-08 in England the average rent paid by council tenants was \u00a3295 per month compared to \u00a3333 for Housing Association tenants and \u00a3583 for free market private rents.<\/p>\n
\u2022In 2007-08 around 2.7 per cent of households were living in overcrowded conditions, ranging from 6.8 per cent in London to 1.4 per cent in the North East and East Midlands.<\/p>\n
\u2022There were an estimated 3,860 Right to Buy sales in England in 2008-09, a decrease from 15,110 sales in 2007-08.<\/p>\n
\u2022The average energy efficiency rating for housing stock is increasing – almost 8 per cent of houses were in the more energy efficient bands A-C in 2007 compared with only 2 per cent in 1996.<\/p>\n
\u2022In 2008, 77 per cent of new dwellings (excluding conversions) were built on previously-developed land, compared with 74 per cent in 2007.<\/p>\n
\u2022The number of planning applications received by planning authorities in April-June 2009 decreased by 21 per cent when compared with the quarter April-June 2008.<\/p>\n
The compendium is a snapshot of data available at the time of going to print (Autumn 2009). More up-to-date data are published as they become available as live tables (see links on the right of linked page).<\/p>\n
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