Available properties

Dear Mr. Bresson

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2011-880

 

I am writing to confirm that we received your information request on 3
October 2011. For your information and future communications your request
has been allocated the reference number FOI2011-880. Please quote this
reference in any future correspondence.

 

We will consider your request and respond in accordance with the
requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Our duty is to
respond promptly or at least within 20 working days.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

 

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Dear Mr. Bresson

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2011-880

 

I am responding to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which we received on 3 October 2011 for information held by the Council.
You requested:

 

Number of vacant 2 bedroom properties, which could be used as 'temporary
accommodation' to fulfil your duty under section 188 of the Housing Act
1996, on the following dates: 23rd, 24th, 25th,26th, 27th, 28th, 29th,
30th September 2011 and 1st, 2nd, 3rd October 2011.

    

Please also indicate which London Borough the properties are located in
and how far in miles they are located from Kensington & Chelsea office at
Horton Street, W8 7NX

    

We are able to provide data for  the number of 2  bedroom properties,
which were used as  'temporary accommodation' to fulfil our duty under
section 188 of the Housing Act 1996, on the dates requested:

 

There were 28 placements in total for the dates requested, please note
that the 24^th, 25^th, 1^st and 2^nd fell on weekends. Overall we placed
into 10 (single rooms/studios), 6 (1 bed), 4 (2 beds), 5 (3 beds), 2 (4
beds) and 1 (5 bed).

 

Of the 2 bedroom properties let the additional details are below.

 

Distance from W8
Tenancy Start Date   Bedrooms Area Code 7NX
26/09/2011 2 BRENT 5.2 Miles
26/09/2011 2 WANDSWORTH 6.7 miles
28/09/2011 2 HACKNEY 9.3 miles
03/10/2011 2 RBKC 0.47miles

    

Complaints

 

I trust this has satisfied your request.  Should you be unhappy with the
handling of your request, the Council has an internal complaints process
for handling FOI Act complaints. Complaints are reviewed by the Town Clerk
and Chief Executive or his nominee. A form is available from our website
to lodge your complaint
[1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/councilanddemocra...
Please contact us if you do not have website access and we can provide you
with a copy of the form.

 

Following this review, should you still be unhappy with how your
information request has been handled, you have a further right to appeal
to the Information Commissioner who is responsible for ensuring compliance
with the FOI Act.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

FOIA Team, Business Protection Unit

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [2]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

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Dear Mr. Bresson,

 

We do not keep any records of properties that we do not use.

 

However, we tend to use everything that becomes available so it is likely
that the information did include all available properties.

 

Our housing providers send property availability lists to a number of
boroughs and in many cases, it is first come first served. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Informaton Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

 

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Thank you for your email. I am out of office until Wednesday 23rd
November.

 

If you are making or forwarding a Freedom of Information Act request
please re-send to [RBKC request email]

 

If you require urgent assistance please contact Liz Man,
[email address] or on 020 7938 8227

 

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Dear Mr. Bresson,

My previous response is our final response in this matter. We have released to you the information we hold and explained why we cannot answer your request in full.

The complaints procedure is at the bottom of my original response if you wish to take this matter further.

Yours sincerely

Robin Yu
Information Protection Assistant
Informaton Governance Team
Information Systems Division (ISD)
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX
Tel: 020 7938 8226

Web: http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

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Dear Mr. Bresson,

 

I acknowledge receipt of your request for review. This has been forwarded
to the Chief Executive, Derek Myers who conducts all FOI reviews. Mr.
Myers will respond to you directly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

 

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Dear Mr Bresson

 

I am referring to your request for a review under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, received on the 4^th January 2012.

 

The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act seriously.

 

We will release all information that we hold unless there is a proper
reason not to.

 

We were asked whether or not we could release information of all the
houses we had available for temporary accommodation.  This is based on a
misunderstanding of how the system works.

 

The Council’s requirements for accommodation fluctuate daily, as new cases
are presented and accepted.  We draw off our offers of accommodation from
middle brokers who are constantly sourcing a stock of accommodation and
offering these out to a variety of local authority housing departments.

 

The supply pool is therefore constantly changing and this Council, along
with others, does not maintain its own supply pool.  It would not be
efficient to maintain houses for which we had financial responsibility,
but which we weren’t using at any one point in time.

 

For that rather obvious reason, we cannot supply addresses which were
“available to us” because this is not a sensible question.

 

Your original request also requested us to supply details of distances of
the properties we were using from Kensington Town Hall, during the
material period.  That information has been supplied to the best of our
ability.

 

This completes the Review as requested by you.

 

 

Derek Myers

Joint Chief Executive

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea

020 7361 2299

 

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