The Halifax's Empty Homes in England survey has highlighted that empty homes made up 1.6% of all privately owned residences in England in April 2006.
That was an improvement on a previous survey in 2003 when empty home numbers were 308,438 (1.8% of all privately owned dwellings), a difference of 19,675 homes, a 6% decrease.
This problem is particularly severe in 15 local authorities, where empty houses make up 3% plus of all privately owned residences. These are in areas where there are high levels of deprivation.
Nonetheless, this is a major improvement from 2003 when a whopping 40 local authorities had 3% plus of their housing stock empty.
The Halifax survey considers 353 English local authorities in all.
Given a significantly lower number of empty homes in 2006, the north of England suffered more significantly, having 14 of the 15 local authorities with the highest proportions of unoccupied houses within the region.
Overall, numbers may have declined in England in the past three years. However, 12 of the 15 hardest hit local authorities experienced increases in empty residence numbers.
The areas which contained the highest proportion of empty homes were Pendle (6.2%), Manchester (5.7%) and Liverpool (5%).
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Empty Home Numbers Down in England
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