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Monthly Housing Market Bulletin
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English Partnerships
English Partnerships was created in May 1999 with the merger of the Commission for the New Towns and the Urban Regeneration Agency. The two organisations carry out their activities under the name English Partnerships.
The agency is involved in approximately 1500 regeneration projects nationwide.
In 2007-08:
- English Partnerships has 500 staff based within five regions; Eastern England and Milton Keynes, London and Thames Gateway, Southern England, North East, Yorkshire and East Midlands and North West and West Midlands.
- We attracted £1.27 bn of private sector investment
- We invested £568m in our programmes and projects
- We funded 50 per cent of our work through programme receipts
- We reclaimed 289 ha of brownfield land
- We started on site 11,045 housing units
- We completed 6,632 new homes
- We enabled 492,000 sq m of employment floorspace.
Source: English Partnerships Annual Report and Financial
Statements Year Ended 31 March 2008
Statements Year Ended 31 March 2008
Housing and population
- Population is estimated to grow by 5.7m from 50.1m in 2006 to 55.8m in 2026
- Household growth is projected to grow at 223,000 a year
- Housing stock is currently growing at 185,000 a year
- The number of households in England is predicted to increase from 21.1m in 2004 to 26.0m in 2026 and155,000 of the 223,000 annual growth is that of one person households
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The average household size is predicted to fall from 2.34 in 2004 to 2.11 in 2026.
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Houses already built will account for two thirds of the housing stock in 2050
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New house building (completions) in 2006 - 07 was 168,000, of which 22,200 were built by registered social lanlords or local authorities
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Housing stock of all tenures in 2006 stood at 22m, of which;
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70 per cent owner occupied
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12 per cent privately rented
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10 per cent local authority rented
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nine per cent registered social landlord rented
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- There are currently half a million empty privately owned residential properties in England and over half have been empty for over six months
- It is estimated that 150,000 properties have been vacant for two years or more
- The average house owner could be losing £8,000 a year by leaving a property vacant, which could otherwise be rented out
- 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide arise from our homes, one quarter of the UK’s total emissions per year
Government investment
- Government investment of over £8b in affordable housing over the next three years (2008 - 11)
Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) total proposed budget expenditure:
- £1.7bn over 3 years for infrastructure in growth areas
- £500m over 3 years for new Housing and Planning Delivery Grant
- £2bn over 3 years for neighbourhood and local renewal programmes
- £50m over 3 years to promote greater community cohesion and integration in local communities.
Government housing targets (England)
- 3m new homes by 2020
- 240,000 net new homes per annum by 2016
- 70,000 more affordable homes per year by 2010- 11 of which 45,000 will be social housing homes
- 25,000 shared ownership and shared equity homes provided each year
- 200,000 new homes to be delivered on surplus public sector land by 2016
- 60 per cent of new homes to be built on brownfield sites
- All new homes to emit 25 per cent less carbon from 2010
- All new homes to emit 44 per cent less carbon from 2013
- All new homes to be zero carbon from 2016
For factsheets please see the Publications page.
Last updated: 17 July 2008
