Council house EPC ratings & MEES
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council as part of a batch sent to 181 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council,
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.
I would like information about your council’s homes and MEES enforcements in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by a housing department or similar.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
1. What is the energy efficiency of the council's homes (managed or owned by the council)? Please provide either a distribution table with the number of buildings for each EPC rating or the percentage of the council’s homes that have received an EPC rating of C or above.
2. What is the number of investigations, enforcement notices and enforcement actions that the council did, related to MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) in the 2021/22 financial year.
Where data is available separately for each statistic please provide separately. If only some information is available, please give me that information.
I would prefer to receive information in a machine readable format, such as CSV files for data, where possible.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
Dear Hannah Jewell,
Thank you for your request for information received on Monday 16^th
January 2023. This has been logged under FO-8907.
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Kyle Houston
Information Governance
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
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Dear Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council,
Thank you for taking the time to look at the FOI/EIR request I have submitted.
This is a polite reminder that the legal deadline by which you needed to respond to the FOI/EIR request was 13th February 2023, which has now passed.
I would be very grateful if you could ensure that you respond to this request as soon as you can.
All the best,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
Dear Hannah Jewell,
Please see attached our response. As previously highlighted in our response to your earlier query for FO-8910, this was accidentally sent to your other WhatDoTheyKnow.com email (specifically the email relating to FO-8906). I apologise about any inconveniences caused.
Many thanks,
Kyle Houston
Information Governance
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
Email: [Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council request email]
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