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Analysis of Local Authority Housing Revenue Accounts and level of allowances to cover 'need to spend' (now using data from the Draft Subsidy Determination 2009/10)
Government is proposing to increase the robbery from tenants rents next year (2009-10) by another £248 million! The Treasury plans to take £1.83 billion from tenants rents (difference between total rents and total allowances). Allowances to local authorities will remain massively underfunded whilst rents are rising faster than inflation (6.2% in 2009/10 year and 6.1% 2010/11).
The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has commissioned new research (August 2008) from the Building Research Establishment and Housing Quality Network into the level that Management & Maintenance Allowance (M&M) and Major Repairs Allowance (MRA) provided to local authorities need to be. The research has been done but the reports still have not been published even though they we were promised they would be available (October 2008) to inform the government's 'Review of Council Housing Finance'.
See what your authority should be receiving if government funded allowances at level of need (based on existing research).
Select your authority from the list below to see details of the existing Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and the difference that government agreeing to fully fund allowances would make (see assumptions used).
-- Select authority from List -- Adur Alnwick Arun Ashfield Ashford Babergh Barking Barnet Barnsley Barrow Basildon Bassetlaw Berwick Birmingham Blaby Blackpool Blyth Valley Bolsover Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Braintree Brent Brentwood Bridgnorth Brighton & Hove Bristol Broxtowe Bury Cambridge Camden Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Cheltenham Chester-le-St Chesterfield City of London City of York Colchester Corby Crawley Croydon Dacorum Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Doncaster Dover Dudley Durham Ealing Easington East Devon East Riding Eastbourne Ellesmere Port Enfield Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Fenland Gateshead Gedling Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Harborough Haringey Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havering High Peak Hillingdon Hinckley Hounslow Ipswich Isles of Scilly Islington Kensington Kettering Kingston U Hull Kingston u Tham Kirklees Lambeth Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Liverpool Luton Manchester Mansfield Medway Towns Melton Merton Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Milton Keynes Mole Valley NE Derbyshire New Forest Newark Newcastle u Tyn Newham North Cornwall North Kesteven North Shropshir North Tyneside North Warwick Northampton Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton NW Leicester Oadby & Wigston Oldham Oswestry Oxford City Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redbridge Redditch Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rutland Salford Salisbury Sandwell Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sheffield Shepway Slough Solihull South Beds South Cambridge South Derby South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northants South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stevenage Stockport Stockton Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Sutton Swindon Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Tendring Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Torridge Tower Hamlets Uttlesford Waltham Forest Wandsworth Wansbeck Warrington Warwick Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire Westminster Wigan Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Wycombe		See DCH Housing Finance page and Register for email broadcasts