Did you know we have a dedicated powers and duties tool?
Available to LG Inform Plus subscribers, it provides information on what current legislation gives English and Welsh councils the power to do and what it requires them to do in law. Advanced searching and filtering options make it easy to find specific powers and duties based on legislation, business function and keyword, and results are easily exported in commonly used formats.
|
Number of vacant dwellings in the area owned by the local authority (including other local authorities outside of the area) (23) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the total number of vacant dwellings owned by any local authority (including those owned another local authority) within the district area at 31 March of the reporting year.
The total number of vacant dwellings in the area is estimated using council tax records, or a local survey if available, and includes dwellings that are empty between changing occupants or undergoing modernisation, repair or conversion, or awaiting demolition, or repossessed, waiting probate; or newly completed but not occupied, owned by a charity, unoccupied annexes, or when the trustee is in bankruptcy. For any group of bedsits, these are counted as one dwelling, only count as vacant when all are vacant.
This indicator excludes second homes, holiday lets, and flats and houses normally occupied by students; when the owner is in prison, receiving or giving care, in the armed or visiting forces; or if the dwelling is flood damaged or awaiting clergy.
This includes dwellings that are vacant even if they are scheduled for demolition at a future date. Data on total vacant stock and those owned by Private Registered Providers are not collected here as they are collated from other sources.
Regional values are calculated from all single tier and district authorities.
This indicator is from the Local Authority Housing Statistics data returns (LAHS) Section E - Vacants.
- Modified
- 20 Dec 2023
- Data last updated
- 15 Feb 2024
- Short label
- No. of vacant dwellings, LA owned
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Dwellings in the area
- Source
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
- is found in the following lists
-
