Question reference: S5W-27917
- Asked by: Gordon Lindhurst, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 13 March 2020
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 23 March 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15195 by Kevin Stewart on 15 March 2018, what impact the increase in the number of hotel rooms in Edinburgh during the last decade is having on its target to increase the (a) housing supply and (b) number of homes available for purchase in the city.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not made a specific assessment of the impact of the increase in the number of hotel rooms in Edinburgh on its target to increase the (a) housing supply and (b) number of homes available for purchase in the city.
Over the life of the previous Parliament, the Scottish Government exceeded its five-year target of delivering 30,000 affordable homes by end March 2016, and delivered 33,490 affordable homes. Of these, 4,570 were in the City of Edinburgh.
Over the lifetime of this Parliament, we have an ambitious target to deliver 50,000 affordable homes, including 35,000 homes for social rent. Between April 2016 and December 2019, some 31,136 affordable homes have been delivered. Of these, 3,764 were in the City of Edinburgh.
Between 2011-12 and 2018-19, there have been a total of 84,777 residential property sales registered in the City of Edinburgh, of which there have been 9,052 sales of new build properties. The annual number of sales has increased over this period from 7,703 in 2011-12 to 12,262 in 2015-16 and has remained at relatively similar levels with 11,236 sales in 2018-19 of which 1,304 were new build.