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Demand for Starter Homes revealed
The government has revealed figures showing demand for Starter Homes by county.
There are 81,522 households on the government’s Starter Homes register of expressions of interest.
This was revealed by Baroness Susan Williams of Trafford, parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Department for Communities and Local Government, when she was earlier this month asked to provide the figures by Labour peer Lord Dale Campbell-Savours.
There are 28,724 households in Greater London which have expressed an interest in the discounted homes, more than eight times the number interested in Essex, which has the second-highest demand with 3,193 households on the register.
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Lord Campbell-Savours said the House of Lords had been told there were “so many hundred thousand people listed as wanting Starter Homes. Is there any information available on where these people are located – which counties and local authorities?”
In reply Baroness Williams wrote to Lord Campbell-Savours to disclose the figures, which revealed the highest demand in Greater London and the lowest in Rutland, where only 20 households have joined the register.
By region, demand is lowest in the North East area, where only 4,852 households have registered an interest.
The second-lowest demand is in the North West area, where 5,727 households have expressed an interest.
In London and the South East area this number increases dramatically, with 49,345 interested in Starter Homes.
