Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Greenwich 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 Greenwich 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
Environmental Information Regulations request: EIR-71214
Thank you for your request dated 16 January 2023.
Your request will be answered by 14 February 2023.
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
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Dear Ms Jewell
Environmental Information Regulations request: EIR-71214 GM
Thank you for your request dated 17 January 2023
Our response is as follows:
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:
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.
Not all of the council’s housing stock have EPC ratings. According to our
records, 15,139 properties have recorded EPCs, and 12,400 do not have
recorded EPCs.
We have access to a database (Parity Projects) which estimates the current
EPC rating for each home, based upon the data we know about each home and
those nearby. This gives us an estimate even for homes where we don’t have
a recorded EPC. According to these records we have the following
distribution:
(The number of estimated D-rated properties is 12744, which may be
difficult to read on the yellow graph)
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.
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Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities and Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
8 [2]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
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From: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Sent: 17 January 2023 08:52
To: 'Climate Emergency UK' <[FOI #936810 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: EIR-71214: Freedom of Information request - Council house EPC
ratings & MEES enforcement
Dear Ms Jewell
Environmental Information Regulations request: EIR-71214
Thank you for your request dated 16 January 2023.
Your request will be answered by 14 February 2023.
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
8 [3]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
ü Please consider the environment before printing this email
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