Affordable Housing: Rural Areas

(asked on 3rd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been developed under the exceptions policy for affordable homes in rural areas in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 6th March 2015

Information reported by local authorities on the provision of additional new build affordable housing on rural exception sites has been collected in the Local Authority Housing Statistics return since 2011-12 and is shown in the table below:

Provision of additional new build affordable housing on rural exception sites in England

2011-12 1,535
2012-13 981
2013-14 1,642

Source: Local Authority Housing Statistics return

Equivalent data was not collected prior to 2011-12.

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