Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)

Revised details of the level of council tax set by local authorities in England for 2012-13 were announced on 9 May 2012. Council tax can be measured in ‘Band D’ or in ‘per dwelling’ terms. Band D has historically been used as the standard for comparing council tax levels between and across local authorities, as this measure is not affected by the varying distribution of properties in bands that can be found across authorities. Additio...

Council Tax charges by band. The ratios of other bands to Band D are: A 6/9; B 7/9; C 8/9; E 11/9; F 13/9; G 15/9; H 18/9. External links: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-council-tax

Amount charged weekly by Local Authorities for social housing. Rents data are based on the financial year. Stock figures used to estimate the average for each county, region and the nation are taken at 1st April of the following financial year. Average rents data between 2003/04 and 2007/08 inclusively is based on total stock figures from Housing Revenue Account (HRA) audited base claim form. Before 2003/04 the average rents data is ba...

Amount charged by Registered Social Landlord (Private Registered Provider (PRP)) Average Weekly Rents for social housing. Data is collected by the Housing Corporation via the annual Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR) based on general needs stock only. Figures are based on only the larger Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) completing the long form. Upto 2006 the threshold for completing the long form was that the RSL owned/ managed...

Number of Registered Social Landlord dwellings. Note: from 2002 the figures in this table are not comparable to those in the main dwelling stock table because the stock figures from 2002 in this table include social rent bedspaces as well as social rent self-contained units; the main dwelling stock tables are based on self-contained units only. Data based on data collected by the Housing Corporation via the annual Regulatory and Statis...

Planning decisions by: type of development, speed of decision, type and speed, major or minor and enforcement actions. Regional figures are rounded and do not necessarily sum to the independently rounded national figures. Speed of Decision: Figures exclude 'county matters' decisions. The percentages do not relate directly to the total number of decisions taken, as some applications (eg. an application for a determination as to whether...

Number of households waiting for local authority housing. Local authorities sometimes maintain a common waiting list with the Housing Association/s in their district. However, no information is available where a Housing Association maintains a separate waiting list to the local authority. Direct comparisons between authorities' housing waiting lists can be misleading in particular because authorities have different arrangements for che...

This spreadsheet contains: the total number of net additional dwellings from all sources, Total number of dwellings, and Average dwelling size (persons per dwelling)   Net additional dwellings includes conversions, change of use, and other reasons, minus demolitions and all dwellings estimates. The net additional data is by borough since 2004/05 and total dwellings estimate is since 2001. More information can be found on the CL...

Total affordable housing completions by financial year in each London borough since 1991/92. The information includes both homes funded through programmes directly managed by the GLA (and formerly by the Homes and Communities Agency) and homes funded through other sources and programmes. Affordable housing is the sum of social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent and low cost home ownership. New affordable homes are additional ho...

Area of Designated Green Belt Land (hectares). Only london boroughs with some greenbelt land shown. A GIS of this land for all of England has now been made available by DCLG. Download the GIS Zip file (27MB) External link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics