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Reference: FOI-479071154
Date of request: 17/01/2023
Title of request: Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement

Dear Hannah Jewell,

Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement that your recent Freedom  of
Information request has been received by Reading Borough Council. You
should expect to receive a response within 20 working days from the date
your request was received.

Please note, if your request is received on a weekend or bank holiday your
request will be registered as being received on the next working day.

Kind regards,

FOI Team

Reference: FOI-479071154
Date of request: 17/01/2023
Title of request: Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement
Information request:

Dear Reading Borough Council,

Please treat this as an 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:

a) 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.

b) 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,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your recent request received by the Council on 17 January
2023.

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

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:

a) 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.

b) 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.

Our response is as follows:

a) 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.
Reading Borough Council has a total of 6991 social housing dwellings, this
include 1255 dwellings managed on behalf of the Council.
Of the total housing stock 3999 dwellings have a lodged EPC's, of the
total 3999 lodged EPC's 2517 are of a C or above rating, this equates to
63% of those with a lodged EPC.
b
In the 2020/21 financial year there were 3 investigations in relation to
MEES
In the 2020/21 financial year one compliance notice was issued, no penalty
notices were issued

On the Reading Borough Council Website there is a publication scheme where
you can [1]search previous Freedom of Information requests that have been
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Kind regards,

FOI Team

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