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Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

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4. Current <strong>Housing</strong> in the <strong>City</strong> of <strong>Westminster</strong>Households moving from abroad are most likely to live in the Abbey Road, Queen’s Park andWestbourne wards. They are also much more likely to be living in private rented accommodation.Some 96.5% of households that have moved into the <strong>City</strong> of <strong>Westminster</strong> from abroad in the lasttwo years live in this form of accommodation. The survey also shows that over half of thesehouseholds gave ‘to be closer to employment or other essential services’ as one of the reasons formoving.The analysis of the previous location of households can be expanded to consider the sub-area withinthe <strong>City</strong> that households previously residing in <strong>Westminster</strong> lived in as well as the <strong>Housing</strong>Corporation sub-region 1 households that moved from elsewhere in London previously lived. This ispresented in the table below. The table shows a third of households that moved within <strong>Westminster</strong>were previously resident in the North sub-area, with almost a quarter previously living in theCentral Strip. Of the 7,572 households that moved from elsewhere in London, 42.9% previouslylive in the East sub-region and 29.9% moved from the North.Location of previous homeTable 4.11 Location of previous homeNumber% of areamoves% of allmoves<strong>City</strong> of <strong>Westminster</strong> 10,402 100.0% 41.0%North West 1,241 11.9% 4.9%North 3,620 34.8% 14.3%Central Strip 2,447 23.5% 9.7%South Central 2,009 19.3% 7.9%South 1,085 10.4% 4.3%Elsewhere in London 7,572 100.0% 29.9%North 2,261 29.9% 8.9%East 3,248 42.9% 12.8%South East 244 3.2% 1.0%South West 783 10.3% 3.1%West 1,036 13.7% 4.1%Elsewhere in the South East 174 - 0.7%Elsewhere in the United Kingdom 2,334 - 9.2%Abroad 4,860 - 19.2%TOTAL 25,342 - 100.0%Source: <strong>City</strong> of <strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Needs</strong> Survey <strong>2006</strong>1 The <strong>Housing</strong> Corporation has compiled five sub-regions for London. These are the North (Barnet, Camden, Enfield,Haringey, Islington and <strong>Westminster</strong>), East (Barking, <strong>City</strong> of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, TowerHamlets and Waltham Forest), South-East (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark), South-West(Croydon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sutton and Wandsworth), and West(Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Kensington & Chelsea).PAGE 43

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