AQW 31239/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 20/02/2014
Answered On Date: 04/03/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development to outline his plans for the construction of new social housing in East Antrim.

Answer:

The Housing Executive has advised that in the current programme year, 2013/14, one scheme for seven units has gone on site in the East Antrim Parliamentary constituency. They have also advised that there is potential for a further scheme for 12 units to go on site before the 31 March 2014.

The Housing Executive has further advised that there are six schemes totalling 101 units programmed in the Social Housing Development Programme (SHDP) to go on site in East Antrim in 2014/15, and three schemes totalling 51 units are programmed in the SHDP for East Antrim to go on site in 2015/16. There are currently no schemes programmed in the SHDP to go on site in East Antrim in 2016/17.