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27 Nov 2024

Households not connected to the gas network

Rising energy bills and changes the Government is introducing to how we heat our homes means that it is important that local councils know the make-up of their local area...

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01 Nov 2024

House building

This analysis presents data on housebuilding, permanent dwellings started and completed, as a proportion of the total dwelling stock.  The analysis uses source data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

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18 Dec 2023

Sub-national residual fuel consumption analysis

Residual fuels are defined as non-gas, non-electricity and non-road transport fuels, and cover consumption of coal, petroleum, manufactured solid fuels and bioenergy and waste not used for electricity generation or...

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11 Dec 2023

Estimates of total final energy consumption

This analysis presents data on estimates of total final energy consumption at a local authority level.  The analysis uses source data from the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero...

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19 May 2022

Homelessness

This analysis presents data statutory homlessness at local authority level. It gives details on total initial assessments, households assessed as threatened with homelesness, households assessed as homeless, and households assessed...

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07 Jan 2022

An Analysis of Additional Affordable Housing

The following analysis shows the total additional affordable dwelling completions provided by local authority areas.  The analysis looks at the provision of additional affordable housing over the years 2009/10 to...

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04 Jun 2021

Additions to Housing Stock

This analysis presents data on housing supply, broken down into new builds, conversions, change of use, demolitions , all given as a proportion of the total dwelling stock.  The analysis...

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22 Feb 2021

The Government’s ‘relentless push for development’ is ‘destroying rural England’

Ros Coward, Professor Emerita of Journalism at Roehampton University, has written in the Guardian this week that local action groups are protesting to save stretches of the countryside from destruction,...

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09 Feb 2021

UK-wide events to inspire and support delivery of community-led affordable homes in rural communities

Jo Lavis, ACRE’s rural housing advisor blogs ahead of the UK Rural Housing Summit 2021 and explains why groups should attend. Across the country rural communities are responding to the...

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01 Feb 2021

50,000 rural landlords to sell up due to climate change rules

The Telegraph reports on warnings from the Country Land and Business Association that Government climate change policies could trigger a ‘mass sale’ of rural rental properties, intensifying the countryside’s housing...

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