Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

10. Basic needs assessment model10.3 The City of Westminster situation in contextAs Fordham Research has carried out about a hundred borough-wide housing needs assessmentssince the ODPM Guide was published in 2000, it is possible to provide reasonable indicative levelsfor the typical levels of affordable housing or shortage found across Britain.In order to ‘standardise’ the levels of need/shortage for local authorities of widely varying scale, theshortfall/surplus of affordable housing has been divided by the numbers of thousands of householdsin the Council area.The value for the City of Westminster is a shortfall of 51 per 1,000 (calculated as (5,621/109,180)×1,000). As can be seen, this figure is well above the national average of a shortage of 16 and theaverage for the Inner London of a shortage of 32.Figure 10.1 Typical levels of need for new affordable housingWestminsterInner LondonOuter LondonSouth WestSouth EastUnited KingdomEastScotland & WalesWest MidlandsNorthEast Midlands4899121716162732510 10 20 30 40 50 60Affordable housing requiremement/000 householdsSource: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 200610.4 Size requirements and sub-areasOverall the survey suggests a shortfall of affordable housing in the City. However, it is alsoimportant to look at what type of shortfalls exists within the current stock of affordable housing.This is recognised in the ODPM guidance.PAGE 93