HSSA and BPSA: UK Local Authority Housing Strategy and Business Plan Statistics

Social Housing Statistics from the UK's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This release was replaced by a new dataset on December 20, 2012. The data is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Analyze local authority housing strategy performance based on the statistical appendix data.
• Benchmark business plan metrics for social housing management across different authorities.
• Study historical trends in UK local authority-owned housing stock prior to the 2012 data revision.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative UK government source, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
• Released under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, which permits reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:06.931057; freshness should be verified as the data was superseded in 2012.

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (UK)

Collection Method

Likely collected through mandatory statistical returns from local authorities.

Freshness

The dataset was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-08, but the content itself was superseded by a new release on December 20, 2012.

Geography

United Kingdom (local authority level)