Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council as part of a batch sent to 151 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Gateshead Metropolitan 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 Ms Jewell
I refer to the request, which you have made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for records held by this service.
Acknowledgement
Your request was received by this department on 16 January 2023.
A final decision on your request would normally be sent to you within 20 working days of receipt of your request. This means that you can expect to receive your decision by the end of 13 February 2023.
There are some limited situations under the Freedom of Information Act, which could mean that the period for a final decision may be longer than the normal 20 working days. If this occurs in your request, we will promptly advise you in writing.
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Officer
Dear Hannah,
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
You asked for information about the council’s homes and MEES enforcements
in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.
In accordance with the Act, I am able to comply with your request and the
answers to your questions are: -
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. - Percentage of
homes EPC c or above 71.4%
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. - None
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Kind regards,
Stuart Gibson [4][IMG]
Group Risk and Assurance Officer
Strategic Housing and Residential Growth [5][IMG] [6][IMG]
Housing, Environment and Healthy
Communities
Civic Centre, Regent Street,
Gateshead,
* [3][email address] NE8 1HH
( (0191) 433 5308
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