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6.5 Housing Stock and Environment
In Hull City Council‟s Housing Strategy 2005-2008 (Hull City Council 2005), they state
that “findings from our research clearly indicate that the supply of housing in the city
does not meet people‟s preferences, with an oversupply of small terraced homes, and
an undersupply of houses in the higher Council Tax bands.” In March 2007, GVA
Grimley LLP was commissioned by Hull City Council to undertake a Housing Market
Assessment. Within the Executive Summary report (Hull City Council 2008), it is stated
that “more than half of Hull‟s housing is terraced which is almost twice as high as the
national average (26%). Over 30% of Hull‟s housing stock is social rented which is
considerably higher than the national average (18.5%). Hull has notably low proportions
of larger family housing (three bedrooms or more) and only 6% of stock is classified as
being detached. House prices in Hull have consistently remained below regional and
national comparators. Furthermore, Hull has a disproportionately high rate of private
sector vacant properties.”
As part of the Local Area Agreement (LAA2), there is a target to improve the percentage
of decent homes. Hull City Council has approximately 28,000 council properties (Hull
City Council 2009) and had a baseline of 50% reaching the Decent Homes Standard 13
for 2007/2008. The LAA2 target (ONE HULL 2006; ONE HULL 2009) is 37% for
2008/2009, 19% for 2009/2010 and 0% for 2010/2011. The target for 2009/10 (19%)
was achieved (www.places.communities.gov.uk).
6.6 Educational Attainment and Absence in Hull Schools
Table 43 gives the percentage of 15-16 year olds achieving five or more A-C grade
GCSEs (or equivalent) between 2007 and 2009 (Department of Education 2009). As
anticipated with Hull‟s higher levels of deprivation, educational attainment of year 11
pupils (15-16 year olds) is considerably lower for Hull schools overall compared to
England. The Locality of the schools is also highlighted within the table (yellow for North
Locality, green for East Locality and orange for West Locality). Most of the schools will
take pupils who live within the same Locality as the school, but there will also be some
pupils from different Localities. Furthermore, there are some schools (Trinity House for
Boys, Newland School for Girls, St Mary‟s and Hymers) who take pupils from across the
city. Winfred Holtby is within East Locality, but mainly takes pupils from North and East
Localities. Sirius Academy opened after January 2009 so is not included in the table.
13 To meet the Decent Home standard, a home should be: (i) meet the current legal standard for housing;
(ii) be in a reasonable state of repair; (iii) have reasonably modern facilities and services; and (iv) provide
a reasonable degree of warmth. More specific information is provided at www.hullcc.gov.uk
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