HRABP - Draft 8 - Flipbook - Page 15
3 Business Overview
1. The Housing Stock
In January 2018 the council’s housing
stock consisted of 4085 general needs
properties, 337 retired living flats and
24 supported housing units (total 4446)
, making it the largest provider of social
rented housing in the Waveney district.
The stock is primarily composed of selfcontained 1 bed units (1420), 2 bed
units (1245), and 3 bed units (1608).
There are also small numbers of smaller
and larger homes: bedsits (38), four
bed (127), five bed (1) and six bed (7)
properties in the housing stock. The
chart below shows the property range
by percentage.
4 Beds 3%
Bedsit 0.9%
6 Beds 0.1%
1 Bed
32%
Property size
by percentage
of housing
stock
3 Beds
36%
2 Beds
28%
The most common stock type is houses (45%) with a broad age profile but larger numbers
built between 1945 - 1964 and post 1974. This is reasonably typical of most non- metropolitan
housing stock retaining councils.
Stock
breakdown
by age
1200
1200
1000
1000
800
800
600
600
400
400
Post 1974
200
200
00
HoHouse
use
1965 - 1974
BunBungalow
galo
w
Flat
Flat
1945 - 1964
MaMaisonette
isone
tte
BeBedsit
dsit
Pre 1945
Geographically, the district is a mixture of urban and rural areas and the spread of the housing
stock reflects this. The majority of the stock (58%) is within the Lowestoft area with the
remainder spread across the market towns (Beccles 14%, Bungay 6%, Halesworth 6%, and
Southwold 4%) and the more remote communities within Waveney (12%).
The housing meets a wide range of need and demand. The 4,085 general needs properties
make up 92% of the housing stock but there are also Retired Living Schemes for residents aged
60+ years. These properties are mainly within Lowestoft but are also located in Southwold
and Bungay. There is also a specialist 24 unit family support building in Lowestoft. The housing
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