Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 15 October 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the number of empty (a) business and (b) residential properties in (i) Tameside and (ii) Stockport in each year since May 2010.
Details of the number of empty (a) hereditaments and (b) domestic dwellings in (i) Tameside and (ii) Stockport in each year since May 2010 are given in the following tables. In the interests of transparency we are also including data back to May 2009.
Empty hereditaments | |
As at 31 March each year | Number empty |
Tameside | |
2010 | 1,422 |
2011 | 1,465 |
2012 | 1,233 |
Stockport | |
2010 | 2,014 |
2011 | 2,134 |
2012 | 1,932 |
Details of the empty hereditaments were supplied by local authorities in England on the annual national non-domestic rates (NNDR3) return and are published on the DCLG website at:
Empty domestic dwellings | |||
As at October each year | Long-term empty dwellings | Short-term empty dwellings | Total empty dwellings |
Tameside | |||
2009 | 2,113 | 2,076 | 4,189 |
2010 | 1,874 | 1,925 | 3,799 |
2011 | 1,709 | 1,964 | 3,673 |
Stockport | |||
2009 | 1,597 | 2,151 | 3,748 |
2010 | 1,500 | 1,989 | 3,489 |
2011 | 1,399 | 1,969 | 3,368 |
Details of the empty domestic dwellings were supplied by local authorities in England on the annual council tax base for formula grant purposes return and are published on the DCLG website at
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