FOI Request - Housing Data

Request 101002811793

1. What are the total number of households in your area?
2. How many commercial properties within your area are currently empty?
3. How many households pay council tax to the authority?
4. How many households are claiming a single person’s occupancy?
5. How many people are on a local authority housing waiting list for housing in your area?
6. How many people within your area are currently considered to be homeless?
7. Over the past 5 years, how many residential properties have been constructed?
8. Over the past 5 years, how much money has the authority received from CIL and Section 106 agreements?

Response 16-06-21

1.            What are the total number of households in your area?
              There are 46030 households in Moray

2.            How many commercial properties within your area are currently empty?
     There are 517 empty non domestic rates premises (we are unable to define if these are commercial)

3.            How many households pay council tax to the authority?
             There are 46030 households liable to pay Council Tax in Moray

4.            How many households are claiming a single person's occupancy?
      There are 15683 households with single person occupancy

5.            How many people are on a local authority housing waiting list for housing in your area?
       There are 3024 households on the Housing List including (homeless list) of which 2388 are on a waiting list.

6.            How many people within your area are currently considered to be homeless?
      There are currently 86 households are currently statutorily homeless as at 01/06/2021.

7.            Over the past 5 years, how many residential properties have been constructed?
Year   Completions
2015   334
2016   373
2017   373
2018   385
2019   449
2020   258

8.    Over the past 5 years, how much money has the authority received from CIL and Section 106 agreements?
This relates to English legislation as we have section 75 agreements in Scotland rather than section 106 and we do not operate a Community Infrastructure Levy. This information is therefore exempt under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information Not Held. 

If you want to know how much we have secured through section 75 agreements then we are happy to provide the information, whether you want that as a total or broken down in to subject matters such as towards healthcare, road infrastructure and so on - please submit a Freedom of Information request to info@moray.gov.uk.