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 £50 per week or more.
The following local authorities meet the government’s 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’s 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