Allocation of public money for housing developments

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Housing Corporation should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Rosalind Kellett

Dear Sir or Madam,

Was the Elephant & Castle development, Southampton funded either in whole or part with money from the Housing Corporation and what housing categories were properties on this development intended for?

Yours faithfully,

Rosalind Kellett

Rosalind Kellett

Dear Sir or Madam,

You have not replied to my question. Please do so as a matter of urgency.

Yours sincerely,

R Kellett

Rosalind Kellett

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please reply to my request. The response was due on 29 April 2008. Under the Freedom of Information Act, you should have replied by now.

Yours sincerely,

R Kellett

Rosalind Kellett left an annotation ()

The Housing Corporation was abolished on 30 November 2008.

My request was an attempt to obtain information to assist with a Judicial Review application in respect of Housing Ombudsman decisions re complaints about Atlantic (formerly Eastleigh) and HydeMartlet Housing Associations.

In the case of Hyde, they received public money to build properties at the Elephant and Castle development, Southampton for shared ownership purchase and I know of one such property that was instead diverted to social housing tenants.I tried to find out how many more properties were diverted in this way.

Atlantic received £1,300,000 of public money to build 29 flats at Parkgate, Fareham for key worker shared ownership purchase. Instead,they managed to convince the government that the properties wouldn't sell, rented them out and pocketed the £1,300,000 grant -
and even though the properties were rented, Atlantic continued to advertise them (in November 2005) as being available for key worker shared ownership purchase. This and other information was provided on your website by the Housing Corporation before it closed down.

As well, the government provided wrong information in parliament that let to a lot of incorrect information about key worker housing appearing in the media in spring 2006. A parliamentary answer in April 2006 that of 1393 homes built for key worker shared ownership properties, only 615 had been sold was contradicted by evidence from a Public Accounts Committee hearing on 4 December 2006 that only 13 of 4284 properties built for the same purpose remained empty in April 2006.
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