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Number of vacant dwellings in the area owned by private registered providers (24) Metric type
- Help text
- The total number of vacant dwellings in the area is estimated using council tax records, or a local survey if available. These figures are for general needs self contained social and affordable rent housing owned by Private Registered Providers (PRPs), supported housing and/or housing for older people rental stock.
PRPs of social housing in England includes those that are registered with the social housing regulator. Stock belonging to small PRPs (those with fewer than 1,000 units) is excluded, as these PRPs are not asked to provide information on how many of their vacant stock are available for letting.
Vacant dwellings include 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.
Any group of bedsits is counted as one dwelling - these are only counted as vacant when all are vacant.
Exclusions apply to 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.
- Modified
- 17 Mar 2023
- Data last updated
- 19 Dec 2023
- Short label
- No. vacant dwellings, PRP owned
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Private Registered Provider vacant general needs dwellings by local authority district
- Source
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
- is found in the following lists
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