Data on Social Housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021

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Dear Eastleigh Borough Council,

My name is Nine Spahr and I am a third year PPE student at the University of Warwick. 
As part of a university research scheme in economics, I am studying the evolution of Council's social housing stock. The project is supervised by Thiemo Fetzer, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.

I came across the available data on aggregate social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales at local authority level. However, more detailed information would be of great assistance in answering my research question. Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I would like access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical level, on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021.


Ideally, the data would follow the following format: 

Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and Social/Council housing stock 
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (eg. full postcode or full address) 

Time unit: As granular as possible (eg. Date)

Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and present time.

Area covered: As large as possible (eg. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time) 


Additional information: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics. 
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .txt.  
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...

Thank you for your time in considering my request.

Yours faithfully, 

Nine Spahr, PPE student at the University of Warwick

Freedom of Information, Eastleigh Borough Council

 

[1]Eastleigh Borough Council

Dear Nine, 

Freedom of Information Request Received

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We are currently treating your request as a request for information under
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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Officer

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Case Number: 00601315

Subject Freedom of Information request - Data on Social Housing stock and
Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021

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[1]Eastleigh Borough Council

Dear Nine, 

Please do not reply to this email chain as it will reopen a closed case
and we will not be notified.

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. I can confirm that Eastleigh Borough Council
(“Council”) does hold the information requested.

Request

Dear Eastleigh Borough Council,

My name is Nine Spahr and I am a third year PPE student at the University
of Warwick.
As part of a university research scheme in economics, I am studying the
evolution of Council's social housing stock. The project is supervised by
Thiemo Fetzer, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.

I came across the available data on aggregate social housing stock and
Right-to-Buy sales at local authority level. However, more detailed
information would be of great assistance in answering my research
question. Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I
would like access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical
level, on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area
for the period 1980-2021.

Ideally, the data would follow the following format:

Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and
Social/Council housing stock
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (eg. full postcode or full
address)

Time unit: As granular as possible (eg. Date)

Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and present time.

Area covered: As large as possible (eg. all properties managed by the
Council at any point in time)

Additional information: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale
price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .txt.  
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...

Thank you for your time in considering my request.

Yours faithfully,

Nine Spahr, PPE student at the University of Warwick

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Attached is a spreadsheet containing the information requested in your
FOI. The Council’s Asset Management team have advised that there were
approximately 5,320 properties owned by the Council in the early 1980’s –
approximately 2,610 of these properties were sold under the Right to Buy
legislation and 2,710 properties were transferred to housing associations
in 1996 under the Large Scale Transfer (LSVT) of housing stock.

The attached spreadsheet does not contain details of all 2,610 properties
but it is the only information the Council holds in relation to your
request. In addition, approximately 5 of the properties listed were sold
after the LSVT and are therefore likely to relate to sale of freehold
reversions. 

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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Officer

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Details

Case Number: 00601315

Subject Freedom of Information request - Data on Social Housing stock and
Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021

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