Estimation of the Need to Spend on Maintenance and Management in the Local Authority Housing Stock

This project was required to assist the then Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) to improve the sophistication of their assessment of the national need to spend on the maintenance and management of the local authority housing stock. Its purpose was to provide a framework that could be used to estimate the national need to spend on this management and maintenance. The final estimate of the need to spend in England for 2001/02 was five and a half billion pounds. This report sets out the methodology used and assumptions made in the construction of this estimate.