Commerical and residential property loans

This is a request for information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I wondered if you could kindly supply me with details of the following:

1. The total amount the council has paid in loans to commercial and residential property developers for development schemes within its jurisdiction, broken down over the past five financial years (2009/10, 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14).
2. The total number of loans, broken down over the same years as above.
3. Returns on the loans/expected returns.
4. Details on each individual loan – size of loan; what scheme it applied to; type of scheme (residential, retail, office, industrial, mixed-use); the developer involved; jobs created.

This is not a witch-hunt, waste of taxpayers’ money-type story. On the contrary, it is a story on how council loans have helped developers get their schemes off the ground (particularly during the recession) thus benefiting the local economy, creating jobs.

If you require any further details in order to comply with this request, please contact me straightaway. If you believe that another public authority holds all of the information I have requested, please let me know as soon as possible and let me have suitable contact details for that public authority.

If the information can be found in the public domain, please supply details of where it might be found.

If an extension to the 20-day statutory deadline is required I would ask that you inform me as soon as possible.