Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data Request

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Dear Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council,

My name is Leon Beaufils and I am a third year economics student at the University of Warwick.

As part of a year-long university research project in applied 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

Thank you for your time in considering my request.

Yours faithfully,

Leon Beaufils,
Economics student at the University of Warwick.

CSG InformationRights, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Sir

I refer to the request, which you have made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for records held by this service.

Acknowledgement

Your request was received by this department on 16 January 2023.

A final decision on your request would normally be sent to you within 20 working days of receipt of your request. This means that you can expect to receive your decision by the end of 13 February 2023.

There are some limited situations under the Freedom of Information Act, which could mean that the period for a final decision may be longer than the normal 20 working days. If this occurs in your request, we will promptly advise you in writing.

Yours sincerely
Information Rights Officer

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Stuart Gibson (Housing), Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Beaufils,

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

In accordance with the Act, I am able to comply with your request and the
information you have requested is attached.

Please note that it was only possible to break this down into the amount
of detail you have requested for properties that have been sold since
2004.

We do however, hold details of all properties that have been sold under
Right to Buy since 1981, without that level of detail, therefore I have
provided this in another spreadsheet.

Please note:

Access to the information in response to your request is provided under
the Freedom of Information Act. To re-use the information for other
purposes (including commercial purposes) you must make a request under the
Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations (2015). You can do this by
writing to Information Rights Officer, Corporate Services and Governance,
1st Floor, Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH or email
[1][Gateshead Council request email]. You may be required to pay a fee or
comply with conditions for permitted re-use.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may apply
to the Strategic Director of Corporate Services and Governance, Civic
Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH, for an internal review of the
decision. This will be a fresh consideration of your request by a more
senior officer. If you wish to request a review you must do this in
writing within 40 days of receipt of this letter.

Following the internal review if you are still unhappy you have a right to
complain to the Information Commissioner as specified below:

Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF

[2]www.ico.org.uk

Kind regards,

Stuart Gibson [4][IMG]

Group Risk and Assurance Officer [5][IMG]    [6][IMG]

Strategic Housing and Residential Growth      Civic Centre, Regent Street,
Gateshead,
Housing, Environment and Healthy
Communities      NE8 1HH

*  [3][email address]

(  (0191) 433 5308

 

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