Affordable Housing: Construction

(asked on 10th June 2019) - View Source

Question

To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2019 to Question 259013, how many affordable homes have been built by the Church of England or its agents in each local authority area since 2015; and what the affordable housing requirement is in each of those local authority areas.


Answered by
Caroline Spelman Portrait
Caroline Spelman
This question was answered on 13th June 2019

There have been 295 new affordable homes created on land owned by the Church Commissioners since 2015.

Details for each Local Authority area are shown in the following table.

Local Authority

Number of Affordable Houses Provided

Policy Requirement for Number of Affordable Houses

Durham

34

50

West Lindsey

15

30

East Cambridgeshire

30

60

Carlisle

42

42

Mendip

60

60

Sunderland

23

23

Arun

15

15

Ashford

77

77

Total

295

356

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