Housing Surveys
The City's Private Sector House Condition and Energy Survey
Every five years, Liverpool City Council carries out a survey of its private sector housing stock. The results from the survey help us to plan our city housing strategy by giving us information on vulnerable households living in non decent housing.
The last survey was carried out in 2005/6 and has now been finished. We would like to thank all those residents who took part. The survey was confidential, so no information that can identify you or your individual home will be made available to any other persons.
The next Liverpool-wide survey will be conducted in 2010/11.
What is a private sector house condition survey?
Central government tells local authorities to carry out surveys like the one we did in 2005/6.
In Liverpool, about 4000 homes in the city were chosen at random to take part. It involved a surveyor looking at the internal and external condition of each home, and asking some questions relating to who lives there.
The survey tells us about the physical condition of private homes in the city. This includes all private houses and flats such as owner-occupied, private rented, shared accommodation, and homes people either rent or are given to them as part of their job.
Why did we carry out a house condition survey?
The results provide us with up-to-date information so that we can describe the age, state of repair, energy efficiency rating, and the need for and cost of any improvements required to private sector houses in Liverpool.
We can use these results to:-
- support applications that we make to the government for money for housing;
- help us plan how best to use funding for improvements, repairs and adaptations; and
- help us to compare housing conditions within our area with the rest of England.
What benefits will result for householders?
The survey results will be used to help us work out which areas of housing in the city are most in need of money being spent on them. They also help us to develop our housing renewal assistance policy when we need to prove to the government that extra help is needed because of our special circumstances.
Wherever we can attract more investment into the City, this will have knock-on benefits for all residents.
What did we find in the 2005/6 survey?
You can download and read an Executive Summary of the most recent findings![(PDF [1.4Mb] opens in new window)](/images/PDF.gif)
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