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New build
Historic trends in new build showed peaks in the early 1950s and late 1960s resulting primarily from programmes of post-war reconstruction and slum clearances. From a high point of about 41,000 to 43,000 completions a year, mainly in the public sector, the level of new build fell during the early 80s to under 20,000 completions per year. Since then, there has been an overall upward trend to just over 25,000 completions per year during the past few years, largely due to private sector new build which currently represents around 84% of all completions. The remainder of new build is predominantly by housing associations (Chart 4).
In 2007-08, there were 25,700 completions in Scotland, an increase of 7% on the previous year. Starts however, fell by 7% from 28,400 in 2006-07 to 26,400 in 2007-08. Chart 5 shows the change in completion rates per 1000 households between 2006-07 and 2007-08, for local authority areas.
Over recent years there have been very few new council housing completions in Scotland. However, Midlothian council have started to build 400 new council houses, of which 54 were completed by end-June 2008.
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