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Westminster – Housing Needs Assessment 2006TenureTable 7.3 Housing need and tenureIn needNot inneedHousing needNumberof h’holdsin City% of totalh’holds inneed% ofthose inneedOwner-occupied (no mortgage) 0 21,668 21,668 0.0% 0.0%Owner-occupied (with mortgage) 0 27,451 27,451 0.0% 0.0%Council 451 11,745 12,197 3.7% 30.4%RSL 450 12,027 12,477 3.6% 30.2%Private rented 587 34,800 35,387 1.7% 39.4%TOTAL 1,488 107,692 109,180 1.4% 100.0%Source: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 20067.5 Housing need and the need for affordable housingThere is a further issue relating to existing households in need. For households in social rentedaccommodation it is likely that a move will release a social rented home for re-letting and thereforethere will be no requirement for additional affordable housing to be provided. It has been decided toremove all households in need currently living in social rented accommodation from the estimatesof additional requirement. This reduces the backlog figure by 901 households to 587. This followsfrom advice in the ODPM Guide:ODPMGuide‘Where existing households are living in unsuitable housing, it is important to try toassess which of these could find solutions in situ or by moving within their currenttenure’. [Section 4, Agenda for Action (page 68)]The draft Housing Needs Assessment guidance published by the ODPM in 2005 goes further thanthis and adds a stage to the Basic Needs Assessment Model ‘minus current occupiers of affordablehousing in need’. It is clear therefore that the removal of the 902 households in social rentedaccommodation is justified by current and future guidance.7.6 Homeless households (backlog households)The Housing Needs Assessment is a ‘snapshot’ survey that assesses housing need at a particularpoint in time. There will, in addition to the existing households in need, be some homelesshouseholds who were in need at the time of the survey and should also be included within anyassessment of backlog need. To assess these numbers we have used information contained in theCouncil’s P1(E) Homeless returns.PAGE 74
7. Backlog of existing needThe main source of information used is Section E6: Homeless households accommodated by yourauthority at the end of the quarter. The important point about this information is the noteunderneath. “This should be a ‘snapshot’ of the numbers in accommodation on the last day of thequarter, not the numbers taking up accommodation during the quarter.” This is important given thesnapshot nature of the survey. Data compiled from the December 2005 P1(E) form is shown in thetable below.Table 7.4 Homeless households accommodated by authority at December 2005 (SectionE6, P1(E) form)Category Quarter ending 30/12/05In Westminster Elsewhere TOTALBed and breakfast* 376 376Other nightly paid* 30 30Hostel* 27 27Private sector accommodation leased by authority 910 528 1,438Private sector accommodation leased by RSLs 809 153 962Directly with a private sector landlord 178 27 205Within Council’s own stock 0 0 0RSL stock on assured shorthold tenancies 77 0 77Other 0 0 0TOTAL 2,407 708 3,115*Location not confirmedSource: Westminster Borough Council P1 (E) December 2005Not all of the categories in the above table are added to our assessment of existing and potentialhouseholds in need. This is because, in theory, they will be part of our sample for the HousingNeeds Assessment. For example, households housed in private sector accommodation shouldalready be included as part of the housing need – such household addresses should appear on theCouncil Tax file from which the sample was drawn.It is important to note, however, that as Westminster is a uniquely pressured area homelesshouseholds are often moved into accommodation outside the City. These households would not beincluded in the council tax register used to draw the survey sample. It is therefore appropriate toinclude homeless households that have been placed in private sector housing outside Westminster.After considering the various categories, we have decided there are six which should be included aspart of the homeless element. These have been underlined in the table above. Therefore, of the3,115 homeless households in temporary accommodation, 1,141 will be counted as homeless for thepurpose of the Housing Needs Assessment.PAGE 75
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