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Latest housing trends published
18/02/2003
Information on housing is published today in the
statistical bulletin "Housing Trends in Scotland: Quarter
Ending 30 September 2002". The bulletin includes quarterly
information on public sector house sales, new house
building and local authority lettings and evictions.
Sales of Public Authority Dwellings
- 9,576 applications were made by sitting tenants to
buy public authority dwellings during the quarter
July-September 2002. This represents an increase of
4,157 (77 percent) on the number of applications during
the same period of 2001. 4,151 public authority
dwellings were sold to sitting tenants during the
quarter July to September 2002, an increase of 872 (27
percent) on the same period in 2001.
New House Building
- Around 5,250 new dwellings were started during
July-September 2002, 552 (10 percent) less than during
the same period in 2001. 5,848 new dwellings were
completed during the quarter July to September 2002, 52
(0.9 percent) less than during the same period in
2001.
Local Authority Lettings and Evictions
- Local Authorities reported that 13,647 permanent
lettings were made of local authority dwellings during
the quarter July-September 2002, just over 100 (0.8
percent) more than were made during July-September of
2001.
- Around half of the lettings made during the quarter
were to households from local authority housing lists;
28 percent were made to existing tenants and a further
19 percent were made to households that were presented
to local authorities as homeless.
- Local Authorities reported that there were 341
evictions of local authority tenants during the quarter
July-September 2002, 18 (5 percent) less than during
the same quarter of 2001.
- Of the evictions which occurred during this
quarter, 9 were as a result of anti-social
behaviour.
Copies of the statistical bulletin Housing Trends in
Scotland: Quarter Ending 30 September 2002 (HSG/2003/1) are
available, priced £2, from The Stationery Office Bookshop,
21 South Gyle Road, Edinburgh EH12 9EB.