High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Dampness, condensation and the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS)
The Scottish Housing Quality Standard ( SHQS) was announced by the Minister for Communities in February 2004. A target was set that all social landlords must ensure that all their dwellings pass the SHQS by 2015. The SHQS is based on a number of broad quality criteria. In order to meet this standard the house must be: compliant with the tolerable standard, free from serious disrepair, energy efficient, provided with modern facilities and services and healthy, safe and secure.
While successive Scottish House Condition Surveys show that the proportion of dwellings with condensation or dampness, or failing the SHQS, has fallen, the most recent figures for 2009 show that 62% of both social housing and of private sector housing falls short of the SHQS (The SHQS figures for 2003/04 to 2007 were revised in February 2009). Just under half (44%) of dwellings have some urgent disrepair.
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Source: Scottish House Condition Survey
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