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Dear Mr Patel,

Thank you for making a request for information to the London Borough of Enfield.

We are aiming to respond to your request within 20 working days and we will let you know if we hold the information you requested and whether or not we can release it under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We are now making an initial assessment of your request and we will contact you if any clarification is needed.

If you have any queries regarding your request, please contact us at [Enfield Council request email] quoting your reference CRM FOI 3917.

Regards,

Quinton Green
Complaints and Access to Information Team
Finance, Resources and Customer Services Department
Enfield Council
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39 London Road
Enfield
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Dear Requestor,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received 24 April 2018
my apologies for the delay in responding to you.  Where you requested
information about privately owned rented or abandoned residential
properties in the London Borough of Enfield

I can confirm that the London Borough of Enfield holds this information.
Please find my response below.

Response

1. What is the borough’s empty homes strategy planning for the future or
where is the best place to locate this particular information.

Please see the following link
[1]https://new.enfield.gov.uk/services/hous...
and attached document.

2. Location address of privately owned, empty or abandoned (more than 6
months) residential properties (including street number and postcode).

Section 31 (1a) of the Freedom of Information Act applies to this request.
This section provides that information is exempt from disclosure if such
disclosure would prejudice the “prevention or detection of crime”. Putting
the addresses of empty properties (residential or otherwise) within the
borough into the public domain would, in the authority’s view, compromise
the security of the buildings concerned and would prejudice the objectives
of preventing criminal behaviour. We consider there is a significant risk
that releasing details of empty properties might lead to burglary, arson
or squatting.

Section 31 is a qualified exemption to which the public interest test must
be applied. There do not appear to be any obvious public interest
considerations that would weigh in favour of disclosure beyond that
wherever possible it is in the public interest for them to have access to
information. There is, however, in our view clear public interest
considerations that weigh in favour of not disclosing the information,
since to do so would prejudice the objective of prevention of crime which
is of course in everyone’s interests. Having considered whether the public
interest weighs in favour of disclosure or non-disclosure, in this
instance the authority has decided that it is not in the public interest
to release such information.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your
original letter and should be addressed to:

Complaints and Access to Information Team

Email – [2][Enfield Council request email]

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF

Kind Regards

Complaints and Access to Information Officer

Complaints & Access to Information Team

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