List areas of high affordability pressure
Published 7 December 2020
Applies to England
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A high affordability pressure area is where the difference between the average social rents and private rents is 拢50 per week or more.
The following local authorities meet the government鈥檚 definition of high affordability pressure:
- Adur
- Arun
- Ashford
- Babergh
- Basildon
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Birmingham
- Blaby
- Boston
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bracknell Forest
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brentwood
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol, City of
- Broadland
- Bromsgrove
- Broxbourne
- Broxtowe
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Cheshire East
- Chichester
- Colchester
- Cornwall
- Cotswold
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Dacorum
- Dartford
- Daventry
- Derbyshire Dales
- Dorset
- Dover
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Devon
- East Hampshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Northamptonshire
- East Staffordshire
- East Suffolk
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Epping Forest
- Epsom and Ewell
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Gedling
- Gloucester
- Gosport
- Gravesham
- Guildford
- Harborough
- Harlow
- Harrogate
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Hertsmere
- Horsham
- Huntingdonshire
- Ipswich
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Kettering
- King鈥檚 Lynn and West Norfolk
- Leeds
- Lewes
- Lichfield
- Luton
- Maidstone
- Maldon
- Malvern Hills
- Manchester
- Medway
- Mendip
- Mid Devon
- Mid Suffolk
- Mid Sussex
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Devon
- North Hertfordshire
- North Kesteven
- North Norfolk
- North Somerset
- North West Leicestershire
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Oadby and Wigston
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Redditch
- Reigate and Banstead
- Ribble Valley
- Rochford
- Rother
- Rugby
- Runnymede
- Rushcliffe
- Rushmoor
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sedgemoor
- Sevenoaks
- Sheffield
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset West and Taunton
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Hams
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- South Lakeland
- South Norfolk
- South Northamptonshire
- South Oxfordshire
- South Somerset
- South Staffordshire
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Spelthorne
- St Albans
- Stafford
- Stevenage
- Stockport
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Stroud
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Swindon
- Tamworth
- Tandridge
- Teignbridge
- Tendring
- Test Valley
- Tewkesbury
- Thanet
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Torbay
- Torridge
- Trafford
- Tunbridge Wells
- Uttlesford
- Vale of White Horse
- Warrington
- Warwick
- Watford
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Wellingborough
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Berkshire
- West Devon
- West Oxfordshire
- West Suffolk
- Wiltshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worcester
- Worthing
- Wychavon
- York