Social housing need at the borough

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Dear Bedford Borough Council,

Please provide the information requested below.

1. How many applicants are currently on the Council's housing waiting list / housing register? Please provide the latest stat.

2. Of the current applicants for social housing:
a. How many are on the waiting list a 1-bedroom property?
b. How many are on the waiting list a 2-bedroom property?
c. How many are on the waiting list a 3-bedroom property?
d. How many are on the waiting list a 4-bedroom property?

3. Please provide the average waiting time before applicants are housed for each year since you took over from bpha, disagregated by the band they are in.

a) for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

b) for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

c) for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

d) for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

e) for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

f) for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

g) for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

h) for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

i) for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

j) for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

k) for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

l) for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

3. How many homeless applicants have been placed in

a) supported or temporary accomodation?
b) in private accomodation?
c) for each, please describe whether it's a one-bed, two-bed or three-bed accomodation
d) What's the average period spent in temporary accomodation for applicants in need of two-bed and three-bed accomodations?

4) Is the council considering reviewing the housing allocations scheme from 2021 to make it commensurate with current housing and market conditions, with a particular attention to inflation?

Yours faithfully,

James Maddison

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Dear James Maddison

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. 20611

I refer to your recent enquiry for information held by the Council. 

Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the authority must
state whether or not the information exists and I confirm that we do hold
the information requested.

Please find the information you requested below :

You Requested:

 1. How many applicants are currently on the Council's housing waiting
list / housing register? Please provide the latest stat.

Response: 2003

 2. Of the current applicants for social housing:

 a. How many are on the waiting list a 1-bedroom property?

Response: 952

 b. How many are on the waiting list a 2-bedroom property?

Response: 379

 c. How many are on the waiting list a 3-bedroom property?

Response: 414

 d. How many are on the waiting list a 4-bedroom property?

Response: 215

 3. Please provide the average waiting time before applicants are housed
for each year since you took over from bpha, disagregated by the band
they are in.

Response: Please note that the average waiting rimes are provided in days

 a. for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
302 254 368 589 875

 b. for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
83 329 238 294 429 377

 c. for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
519 505 268 424 600 426

 d. for a 2-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
810 241 351 1562

 e. for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
505 38 482 275 953

 f. for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
210 409 360 412 562 487

 g. for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
530 362 582 1118 935

 h. for a 3-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

Response: not applicable.

 i. for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band A what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
1367 50

 j. for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band B what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
247 859 660 1125 2251 1321

 k. for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band C what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)
935 1211

 l. for a 4-bedroom applicant in Band D what's the average waiting period?

Response:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (up to 8/8/23)

3. How many homeless applicants have been placed in

 a. supported or temporary accomodation?

Response: 340 in TA

 b. in private accomodation?

Response: none

 c. for each, please describe whether it's a one-bed, two-bed or three-bed
accomodation

Response:

1 Bed 167
2 Bed 59
3 Bed 85
4 + Bed 29

 d. What's the average period spent in temporary accomodation for
applicants in need of  two-bed and three-bed accomodations?

Response:

• Average period spent in TA for applicants in need of a two bed is 255
days
• Average period spent in TA for applicants in need of a three bed is
416 days

4) Is the council considering reviewing the housing allocations scheme
from 2021 to make it commensurate with current housing and market
conditions, with a particular attention to inflation?

Response: The Allocations Scheme is due to be reviewed in the next 6
months. It will be a full review looking at all aspects of the Scheme.

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