Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data Request
Dear Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council,
My name is Suraj Rajesh, and I am a second-year economics student at the University of Warwick.
I am a research assistant for a research project conducted by Professor Ludovica Gazze and Professor Thiemo Fetzer at the University of Warwick. As part of the project, I am studying the evolution of the Council's social housing stock.
I found the available data on aggregate social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales at the local authority level. However, more detailed information would greatly assist 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 (e.g. full postcode or full address)
Time unit: As granular as possible (e.g. Date)
Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and the present time.
Area Covered: As large as possible (e.g. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time)
Additional information, if possible: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .csv
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,
Suraj Rajesh,
Economics student at the University of Warwick
FOI request - Ref FOI/23/0069
I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request for information.
I have asked the relevant officers of the Authority to commence enquiries immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request under the FOI Act and to supply any which is found to you.
Your request has to be processed within a maximum of 20 working days, which means the Council must provide you with the information it has (assuming no exemptions are claimed) by 17/02/2023. If it is possible to provide you with the information within a shorter timescale then that will be done.
Should you have any queries about this matter please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards
FOI Officer
Good afternoon,
Please see attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.
Kind regards
Information Governance Team
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