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Dear Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council,

I am emailing to request the following information from Lambeth Council under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

1) A list of building, land and heritage assets disposed of (i.e. the council no longer owned the
asset) by the council between 01/01/2010 and 01/01/2020, including:

- Name of the asset
- What type of asset is it - building, land or heritage?
- Address (if applicable)
- Postcode (if applicable)
- The date it was disposed of
- The type of disposal (for example sale, community asset transfer, etc)
- How much it was sold for? (if applicable)
- Who it was sold to?

Yours faithfully,

Charles Marchant

iCaseworkInformation, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

Our reference: 1718905
 
 
Dear Mr. Marchant 
 
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 3 February
2020.  Your request has been summarised as follows:
 
1) A list of building, land and heritage assets disposed of (i.e. the
council no longer owned the
asset) by the council between 01/01/2010 and 01/01/2020, including:

- Name of the asset
- What type of asset is it - building, land or heritage?
- Address (if applicable)
- Postcode (if applicable)
- The date it was disposed of
- The type of disposal (for example sale, community asset transfer, etc)
- How much it was sold for? (if applicable)
- Who it was sold to?
 
We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000and we aim to send a response by 2 March 2020- this is 20 working days
from the date of receipt. 
 
The Freedom of Information Act 2000may restrict the release of some or all
of the information you have requested. We will carry out an assessment and
if any exemptionsapply to some or all of the information then we might not
provide that information to you. We will inform you if this is the case
and advise you of your rights to request an internal review.
 
We will also advise you if we cannot provide you with the information
requested for any other reason together with the reason(s) why and details
of how you may appeal (if appropriate).
 
 
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Alexandra York, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

Dear Mr. Marchant,

Thank you for your information request. 

Your  request has been recorded and we should have responded to you by 02
March.  We apologise, but there has been a delay in processing your
request.  We are currently working through a backlog that has accumulated
due to being short of staff, and this has impacted our response times. Our
new target date is 30 March.  

Again, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.  If you wish to speak to
someone about this delay, you can write to the H&F InTouch team at Room
229, Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London W6 9JU, or email:
[Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council request email]. 

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Alexandra York
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Alexandra York, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

Dear ‎Resident,‏

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 3 February 2020 and
apologies for any inconvenience caused by the delay in processing your
request.

 

Your request

 

1) A list of building, land and heritage assets disposed of (i.e. the
council no longer owned the
asset) by the council between 01/01/2010 and 01/01/2020, including:

- Name of the asset
- What type of asset is it - building, land or heritage?
- Address (if applicable)
- Postcode (if applicable)
- The date it was disposed of
- The type of disposal (for example sale, community asset transfer, etc)
- How much it was sold for? (if applicable)
- Who it was sold to?.

 

Our response

 

This request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

I can confirm that Hammersmith and Fulham holds some of the information
you requested. Hammersmith and Fulham are not required to keep records of
the information you requested for more than six years; therefore, the
Council is providing information only from 01 April 2013. However, we are
also withholding some of that information since we consider that the
following exemptions apply to it.

 

We consider that exemption Regulation 12 Section 1 subsection 1 applies to
your request for the name, type, address, postcode, date of disposal,
price and who it was sold to. A public authority is not obliged to comply
with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit. As
conducting a search for all the information requested would require take
over 18 hours, exceeding the cost limits for compliance, we are
withholding the information and only providing you with the following.

 

The Council has previously sold assets under the Housing Act 1985, known
as the Right to Buy scheme, which allows Council tenants to acquire long
leases of flats under statutory legislation. There are a few freeholds
that were sold under this Act. The Council has also included schools that
were converted from foundation or community schools under the Academies
Act 2010. Up to May 2014, the Council had previously disposed of HRA
residential assets that had high renovation costs. The disposal of
individual HRA assets needing major innovation ceased mid-2014. The
Council has sold a handful of surplus assets for new housing developments,
including affordable housing partners since 2014. These particular
disposals are outlined in various Cabinet decisions. The Council’s website
provides details of Cabinet reports and allows the respondent to search
reports year by year, [1]here.

 

The table below shows the total number of disposals per annum and the
total gross disposal receipts per financial year. The disposals are
General Fund and HRA assets.

 

Year Number of asset sold  - long Total gross disposal
lease or freehold value pa
April 2013 to 31 March 170 £77.316 million
2014
April 2014 to 31 March 113 £68.206 million
2015
April 2015 to 31 March 88 £27.754 million
2016
April 2016 to 31 March 64 £13.250 million
2017
April 2017 to 31 March 38 £14.177 million
2018
April 2018 to 31 March 21 £4.819 million
2019
April 2019 to 31 Dec 17 £4.292 million
2019

 

 

The Council has undertaken five community asset transfers, and these were
considered by Cabinet during Cabinet meetings held on 7^th November 2016,
1 July 2018 and 1^st July 2019. The full details can be found on the
Council’s website, [2]here.

 

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they are referred to the Council's Information Manager for an internal
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internal review, before the ICO investigates the matter.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

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