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New housing supply
Data on housing supply informs National Indicator 32 (Increase the rate of new house building) in the Scottish Government's 2007 Spending Review, and comprises the following elements:
- new house building: houses completed by or for housing associations, local authorities or private developers for below market rent or low cost home ownership; houses completed for market sale by private developers.
- refurbishment: houses acquired by housing associations and refurbished either for rent or low cost home ownership. Refurbishment of private dwellings funded wholly or partly through the Affordable Housing Investment Programme.
- conversion: new dwellings created by conversion from non-housing to housing use.
The supply of new housing increased by 5% between 2006-07 and 2007-08, driven by rises in housing association and private completions. This follows a drop between 2005-06 and 2006-07, and brings new housing supply close to 2005-06 levels (Table 1, Chart 2).
Table 1: Components of new housing supply in Scotland
| Private new build | Housing association new build | Local authority new build | Refurbishment | Conversion | New housing supply |
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1996-97 | 17,491 | 2,963 | 241 | 984 | 1,244 | 22,923 |
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1997-98 | 17,983 | 4,489 | 114 | 1,514 | 958 | 25,058 |
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1998-99 | 18,784 | 1,753 | 120 | 380 | 958 | 21,995 |
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1999-00 | 19,048 | 3,964 | 69 | 413 | 1,151 | 24,645 |
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2000-01 | 18,050 | 3,804 | 112 | 971 | 1,103 | 24,040 |
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2001-02 | 18,047 | 4,197 | 65 | 597 | 1,311 | 24,217 |
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2002-03 | 18,628 | 3,715 | 94 | 514 | 1,305 | 24,256 |
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2003-04 | 20,086 | 3,368 | - | 410 | 1,409 | 25,273 |
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2004-05 | 21,713 | 4,024 | - | 677 | 1,336 | 27,750 |
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2005-06 | 21,171 | 4,698 | - | 469 | 1,695 | 28,033 |
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2006-07 | 20,819 | 3,231 | 6 | 437 | 1,702 | 26,195 |
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2007-08 | 21,618 | 4,097 | 28 | 389 | 1,417 | 27,549 |
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The components of housing supply within each local authority are shown for 2007-08 in Chart 3. Glasgow City accounts for 15% of Scotland's new housing in 2007-08, at over 4,200 new units, 80% of which were private sector new build completions, and the majority of the rest were completions by housing associations. Conversions from non-housing to housing use were of particular importance to the supply of new housing in Aberdeen City, representing 27% of the supply of new housing in 2007-08.
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