Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

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Westminster – Housing Needs Assessment 20064.10 SummaryThe household survey collected a significant amount of data about households’ currentcircumstances. Some of the main findings were:• Almost 90% of households in the City of Westminster live in a flat and households living inrented housing are most likely to live in flats.• Just under a fifth of all households are ‘pensioner-only’ and 16.2% contain children. Nonpensionerhouseholds that do not contain children dominate the private rented sector.• Car ownership data suggests that there is an average of 0.55 cars per household in the City.There are large differences by tenure with owner-occupiers (with mortgage) having anaverage of 0.88 cars per household whilst Council tenants have an average of 0.24 cars perhousehold. Over two-thirds of all households in social rented accommodation have no use ofa car or van.• Around a quarter of workers work in the City of Westminster area. The average journey towork time of all heads of households in employment is 21 minutes.• Around 22% of households have lived in their current home for less than two years; with41.0% of moves occurring within the City.• Households moving from abroad are much more likely to be living in private rentedaccommodation, with 96.5% living in this form of accommodation. The survey also showsthat over half of households moving from abroad moved to be closer to employment or otheressential services.• In terms of future household moves, the survey estimates that 27,437 existing and 6,086potential households need or expect to move within the next two years. In both cases ahigher proportion would like to move to owner-occupation than expect to do so.PAGE 52
5. The local housing market5. The local housing market5.1 IntroductionThis chapter sets out the results of an analysis of housing market prices and rents in Westminster.Information was collected from two sources:• Land Registry• Survey of local estate and letting agentsThe analysis provides a context for the property price situation in Westminster and then a sequenceof analyses based on information collected from estate/letting agents. This leads to figures thatshow the minimum price/rent of housing for a range of dwelling sizes.5.2 National, regional and local pictureInformation from the Land Registry shows that between the 4 th Quarter of 2000 and the 4th quarterof 2005 average property prices in England and Wales rose by 79.7%. For London the increase was47.7% whilst for the City of Westminster the figure was 45.2%.The table below shows average prices in the 4th quarter of 2005 for each of England and Wales,London and the City of Westminster. The table shows that average prices in Westminster are overthree times the average for England, and over twice the London average.Table 5.1 Land Registry average prices (4th quarter 2005)Area Average price As % of E & WEngland & Wales £191,327 100.0%London £289,247 151.2%Westminster £590,661 308.7%Source: HM Land Registry, property price data, 2006PAGE 53
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