How many private sector homes are classified as being below tolerable standard in each local authority area for the last four years for whi…

There are two sources of estimates of the number of dwellings below tolerable standard (BTS) in Scotland. The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) provides a national estimate (generally every five years)
- the latest of which, for 1996, gave an estimate of 27,000 BTS dwellings in Scotland. The SHCS estimate cannot be broken down by local authority area; however local authorities themselves produce annual estimates of the number of BTS dwellings in their areas
- although the amalgamation of these estimates for 1996 was very different, at 84,000, from the SHCS estimate for that year.The following table presents local authorities' estimates of the number of below tolerable standard (BTS) dwellings in the private sector in their areas in each of the last four years. Some authorities are not able to provide a full tenure breakdown of their BTS dwelling estimate; the table below, therefore, also gives each authority's estimate of the total number of BTS dwellings in their area and the number for which the tenure was not known. Information on the total number of private sector dwellings in each local authority in these years is not held centrally.ESTIMATED NUMBER OF DWELLINGS BELLOW THE TOLERABLE STANDARD: | |
(PRIVATE SECTOR) 1996 TO 1999 | | | | | | | | |
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
Local | Private | Tenure | Total | Private | Tenure | Total | Private | Tenure | Total | Private | Tenure | Total
Authority | Sector | not known | BTS | Sector |