Housing Intelligence for the East Midlands

Hi4em - Housing Intelligence for the East Midlands - is a project funded by the Regional Housing Group of the East Midlands Regional Assembly and supported by G.O.E.M. - Government Office East Midlands. We aim to source, display and map a wide range of data relating to housing markets and private sector housing conditions in the region. The data provided supports Local Authorities working to make homes decent and more energy efficient, particularly for vulnerable households and supports regional and sub-regional assessments of housing market conditions.

An information pack is available which gives an overview of the Hi4em systems and the data available. The elements of the pack can be downloaded from the Document Library. Paper Information Packs are available free on request.

System Status

The online systems are currently working as follows:
Content Management System (CMS)		System Running
Buisiness Objects (BO)		System Running
Geographic Information System (GIS)		System Running

Navigation

The menu on the left of the page is related to the geographic area you are currently in. At present this relates to the project as a whole and the East Midlands generally. Clicking on 'Derbyshire', for example will bring up a sub-menu of the local authorities in Derbyshire and access to data and maps relating to the whole of Derbyshire. Then clicking on 'Erewash' will detail conditions and activity in Erewash.

Terms and conditions - use of web site

Progress to date - 8nd June 2009

Reports, charts and maps added so far include data from these sources:

Housing Market reports - the full version of the Affordable Housing Needs Model devised by Fordham Research as well as a summary by Strategic Housing market Area have been added. An explanation of the methodology using secondary data as per CLG guidelines is also included. as well as reports that give a snapshot of housing market conditions in the East Midlands from a variety of sources. These will be updated quarterly. (8 June 2009)
Land Registry data - reports added for the region, counties all LAs for each year from 2004- .
Department of Work and Pensions benefits data - regional maps by local authority for February 2008 are now available along with a set of maps tracking the change in numbers since November 2007. (28 August 2008)
Housing Strategy Statistical Appendices. Housing data collected annually from all local authorities including statistics on empty properties, council houses, improvements, decent homes, housing register, grants and grant expenditure and energy efficiency. Some of the 2006-07 data has now been mapped and is available under East Midalnds Maps and Reports (1 August 2008).
Department of Work and Pensions benefits data - regional maps by local authority for May, August and November 2007 are now available along with a set of maps tracking the change in numbers between May 2007 and November 2007. The numbers of single parent benefit claimants in each category has now been added to the dataset. (29 July 2008)
Valuation Office Agency - actual data from VOA of dwelling type, age, size and number of rooms/bedrooms for the region by local authority
Experian data - Data and maps are now available for the region by local authority
CACI Community InSights - Data and maps are now available for the region by local authority
Disabled Facilities Grants. Data supplied by 28 local authorities as part of the research into demand for DFGs has been mapped and is available. Late additions to the data mean that county and regional maps are not displaying all the data that has been supplied.
Warm Front Grants. Actual Warm Front grant data supplied by local authorities for 2005-06 and 2007-08. To date this has been mapped at regional level only.
Local Authority Disabled Facilities Grants. Actual data from around half the region's local authorities giving the numbers of Disabled Facilities Grants in 2005-06. This is contributing to the review of demand for adaptations being carried out by Foundations.
Local Authority decent homes activity. Actual data from local authorities giving the number of homes made decent to update the Hi4em survey model
Building Research Establishment Stock Model. This is a model derived from the 2001 census and the 2001 results of the English House Condition Survey that uses house types and ages, location, and occupier patterns to assess the likely condition of properties
Hi4em survey model. This takes the data from local authority house condition survey carried out since 2001 and distributes the results for the authority, or any sub-area reported on, using the BRE distribution patterns.
Department of Work and Pensions benefits data - February 2006 and 2007. Actual data from the DWP Information Directorate for February 2006 and February 2007 has been published. This gives the number of claimants of a range of income and disability related benefits and is the basis for identifying high concentrations of 'vulnerable households'.
Index of Multiple Deprivation. As well as the full index for the East Midlands maps have been published contrasting the most and least deprived areas. .
Hard to heat homes. Data from the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes projecting the numbers of households without access to mains gas and dwellings built of a solid wall construction, without cavities. This data has been mapped for all counties by ward and lower super output area and all local authorities by ward, lower super output area and census output area.

News

Java Update

If you are trying to access Business Objects InfoView and you are experiencing problems with Java, you may need to up or downgrade your version of Java. The current version of Business Objects InfoView is 11.5 and this works with Java version 6 update 13.

East Midlands EXPO 2009 - Greening The Economy

EXPO in the East Midlands is an annual free event focusing on sustainability. It provides an opportunity to see how we can achieve our vision of a vibrant economy that values all our people and protects and enhances our environment locally and globally.

It will take place on Thursday 8th October at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester.

For more information please visit: http://www.emra.gov.uk/news/events/east-midlands-expo