Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement
Dear Sutton 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
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Dear Hannah Jewell
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST - REF NO - FOIS2879
I refer to your request for information received on the 17th of January
2023 concerning Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement.
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.
EPC Rating Properties
A 0
B 101
C 3429
D 2145
E or below 314
SHP plans to bring a further 117 to C and above this year.
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.
There have been 111 investigations and no enforcement notices or actions
related to MEES in the 21/22 financial year.
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Improvement Team, Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way, `4Sutton, Surrey, SM1
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Louise Ivens
Data Governance & Protection Officer
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