AYLESBURY VALE DISTRICT COUNCIL
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OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
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Date Reply Sent:
Date Received on: 6th April 2010
Reply Due by: 4th May 2010
29th April 2010
Question asked (as phrased by customer)
AVDC response
Dear Rachel House,
From: Rachel House [mailto:request-31961-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx]
Thank you for your information request to
Sent: 04 April 2010 01:33
Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC).
To: Data Protection
Subject: Freedom of Information request -
Homelessness in Aylesbury
Please note our systems do not allow us to
identify the distance from Aylesbury town
Dear Aylesbury Vale District Council,
centre so figures given are for the whole of
the area covered by AVDC.
Under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act, I wish to
receive the following information from your
authority:
1.
1. Number of empty/abandoned buildings for
Residential: As at 1 April 2009 for the whole
lease and/or sale within a 3 mile radius of
of the Aylesbury Vale District there were
Aylesbury town centre?
1442 empty residential properties of which
331 had been empty for more than 6 months.
These figures are provided from Council Tax
records and are provided annually. They are
not updated through the year, the figures for
April 2010 are to be confirmed.
Commercial: 515 properties empty, as taken
from our Northgate system relating to
Business Rates. We are not however able to
ascertain how many of these are “abandoned”.
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2. Statistics on the number of homeless
2. The number of homelessness accepted as
people from the last 12
months in the area of Aylesbury and
homeless, in priority need and unintentionally
surrounding areas?
homeless in the last 12 months (between
1/4/09 to 31/04/10) = 93
3. The number of enquires/applications
3. Statistics on number of
enquiries/applications regarding
regarding homelessness through AVDC from
homelessness through AVDC the last 12
1/04/09 to 31/03/10 =1003
months?
4. A list of all funding available to apply
4. We have not currently identified any
for help towards
capital or revenue funding to provide or
starting a homeless shelter in Aylesbury?
operate a homelessness shelter at this stage .
In the past, the Council has demonstrated its
commitment to homelessness by contributing
to the capital funding of Griffin Place (a
facility for statutorily homeless people) and
the new Bearbrook scheme for single
homeless people with support needs.
5. A list of contacts who would be able to help
5. Please find the AVDC Housing Advice
with regards to how
to help shorten length of / reduce number of Directory attached.
people who already are
/ try and avoid homelessness?
Should you require further information,
please contact
Some parts of this request may be easier to
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx or write to
answer than others, and
the address below.
should this prove to be the case I would ask
that you release
If you feel that your request has not been
available data as soon as possible rather
than hold up the entire
properly handled or if you are dissatisfied
request.
with the outcome, you can request an internal
review in accordance with the Council's
I would prefer to receive this information
Comments and Complaints procedure. You
electronically. If the
will find details of the procedure on our
decision is made to withhold some of this
data using exemptions in
website www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk under
Act, please inform me of that fact and cite
the heading Council and Democracy.
the exemptions used.
Please note that you have the right to make a
If you need any clarification then please
contact me at the email.
complaint direct to the Information
Under your section 16 duty to provide advice Commissioner and details on how to do this
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of the material may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the
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and assistance I would
are set out on the Information
expect you to contact me if you find this
Commissioner’s website
request unmanageable in
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk under
any way.
the heading “Complaints”. The Information
I would be grateful if you could confirm in
Commissioner, however, will normally expect
writing that you have
a complainant to have exhausted a public
received this request, and I look forward to authority's internal review procedures first.
hearing from you in
the near future.
Yours sincerely,
Yours faithfully,
Karen McMahon
On behalf of the Head of IT
Rachel House
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INFORMATIVES
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records themselves. Sometimes this can be most efficiently achieved by providing copies of the original documents. On other
occasions the raw documents could be difficult to interpret - due to the use of jargon, or because the information sought is only a
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wrong” for details of the procedure.
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are set out on the Information Commissioner’s website www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk under the heading “How to make a
complaint”
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The copyright in the material contained in this document is owned by Aylesbury Vale District Council unless otherwise stated. The supply of
documents under the Freedom of Information Act does not give the person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public. Brief extracts
of the material may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the
purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by
Aylesbury Vale District Council should be sought from the copyright holders concerned. If in doubt, users should contact us in the first instance
