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Camden Labour welcomes nation-topping affordable homes boost

Posted on September 11th, 2009 by camdenlabour. Filed under Housing.

Camden is set to be the most significant beneficiary of the government’s new affordable home building programme.

Housing Minister John Healey Thursday confirmed yet another boost for affordable housing with news of a nearly £250 million investment to provide 3400 affordable homes and creating around 5,000 jobs.

In all, 43 Housing Associations across 97 council areas and within every region of the country will benefit from the funding boost. Camden is set to receive the highest amount, £42 million for 284 homes.

All the new homes announced this week will be affordable, with more than four in every five built for low cost rent, and the rest for first time buyers.

Labour Group leader Cllr. Nasim Ali welcomed the £42 million investment – the largest sum in the country:

“Every councillor knows that housing is the number one concern local people have at our surgeries. Locally Labour’s never stopped lobbying for more affordable housing, so £42 million for 300 new homes is fantastic news. It’s the largest settlement in the country and this will help families in overcrowded housing as well as first time buyers. This stands in stark contrast to the Lib Dem-led council and their policy of auctioning off council flats on the open market.”

The regional breakdown of today’s Housing Association funding allocation, with new homes by rent and low cost home ownership (LCHO) identified separately is:

FOR RENT

LCHO

TOTAL

GRANT

(£m)

HOMES

GRANT (£m)

HOMES

GRANT (£m)

HOMES

East Midlands
5.832

121

0.543

30

6.375

151

Eastern
2.327

51

7.867

209

10.194

260

London
127.093

975

9.082

255

136.175

1,230

North East
0.383

12

0.218

8

0.601

20

North West
5.373

90

0.923

26

6.296

116

South East
32.902

448

7.920

261

40.822

709

South West
30.551

468

5.940

110

36.491

578

West Midlands
4.770

122

2.007

73

6.777

195

Yorkshire and Humberside
0.855

73

1.332

81

2.187

154

Total
210.086

2,360

35.832

1,053

245.918

3,413

ii) The breakdown of the Housing Association funding allocation by council area and number of new homes is:

AREA
GRANT (£m)

HOMES

Adur
2,400

48

Allerdale
0.371

5

Arun
0.523

10

Basingstoke and Deane
11.701

178

Bedford
5.980

153

Birmingham
0.247

4

Blackburn
0.243

4

Bournemouth
0.550

10

Breckland
0.116

1

Bristol
0.000

16

Bromley
4.364

31

Calderdale
0.000

15

Camden
42.665

284

Charnwood
0.500

8

Chelmsford
0.176

4

Cherwell
7.022

113

Chichester
0.731

10

Copeland
0.000

8

Cornwall
1.823

27

Crawley
0.520

8

Croydon
0.058

64

Darlington
0.000

5

Dartford
0.089

1

Derbyshire Dales
1.523

30

Doncaster
0.000

2

Dudley
0.127

2

East Hampshire
0.840

14

East Lindsey
0.420

16

East Riding
0.057

1

Eden
0.600

10

Enfield
0.222

5

Guildford
0.200

8

Hackney
2.146

24

Harrogate
0.250

5

Havering
35.818

357

Herefordshire
0.000

18

Hinckley and Bosworth
0.249

14

Kettering
1.716

22

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
0.804

14

Kingston upon Hull
0.035

1

Kirklees
0.000

14

Leeds
0.605

11

Leicester
0.020

1

Lewisham
0.000

31

Mid Devon
0.516

23

Mid Sussex
2.105

41

Newcastle upon Tyne
0.175

3

Newham
7.690

63

North East Derbyshire
0.140

4

North Kesteven
0.257

9

North Lincolnshire
0.000

7

North Norfolk
0.064

4

North Warwickshire
0.780

12

North WestLeicestershire
0.634

11

Norwich
0.126

2

Oldham
0.051

1

Plymouth
1.318

22

Portsmouth
0.780

12

Redbridge
4.988

30

Reigate and Banstead
0.255

4

Richmond upon Thames
4.520

52

Rossendale
0.700

10

Rotherham
0.000

10

Salford
0.840

12

Sandwell
0.073

1

Sevenoaks
0.640

13

Sheffield
0.000

30

Shropshire Council
3.339

82

Solihull
0.052

1

South Gloucestershire
2.800

56

South Norfolk
0.068

1

South Staffordshire
0.095

1

Southampton
0.570

10

Southwark
4.408

36

Stafford
0.068

1

Stevenage
0.540

9

Stockport
0.369

6

Stockton-on-Tees
0.208

4

Stratford upon Avon
0.079

1

Tandridge
1.571

25

Taunton Deane
5.078

74

Teignbridge
0.835

15

Test Valley
4.239

52

Tower Hamlets
28.787

245

Wakefield
0.056

8

Walsall
0.052

1

Waltham Forest
0.021

1

Wandsworth
0.490

7

Waveney
0.076

1

Wealden
3.437

63

Welwyn Hatfield
0.130

2

West Lindsey
0.648

19

Wirral
0.920

14

Wolverhampton
0.049

1

Worcester City
0.735

15

Worthing
0.479

7

Wychavon
0.000

3

Total
212.556

2,744

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