Council house EPC ratings & MEES
Dear Arun District 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
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Dear Hannah Jewell
Thank you for your Information Request received 16 January 2023.
REQUEST:
RE: Council house EPC ratings & MEES
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.
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.
RESPONSE:
1.
Arun District Council published the EPC data in 2022 as part of our
decarbonisation strategy which was made public through our committee
reports.
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This includes estimated EPCs where necessary.
Q2.
• 1 April 2021 – 31 March 2022 = 314 service requests
• 5 Compliance Notices served – The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented
Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015
Note: Between September 2021 – September 2022 Arun District Council and
Chichester District Council received funding from Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy, as part of their Private Rented Sector
Enforcement and Compliance competition. Therefore, additional resources
were used to raise awareness and investigate Minimum Energy Efficiency
Standards during this time.
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Arun District Council
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