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Dear Renfrewshire Council,

FOI Request - Council Housing Waiting Times

I am requesting the following information to which I am entitled under the
freedom of Information Act 2000.

- The average wait time for council housing for priority 1 (or highest
priority) in 2022
- The average wait times for council housing for priority 2 (or medium
priority) in 2022
- The average wait time for council housing for priority 3 (or lowest
priority) in 2022

Yours faithfully,

Mark Docherty

FOI, Renfrewshire Council

Dear Mr Docherty,

Freedom of Information Application - Acknowledgement IG230589

Thank you for your enquiry, received by the Council on 31st March 2023.

I am writing to inform you that your application for information is being dealt with under the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act, 2002. Section 10(1) of the Act stipulates that enquiries must be dealt with within twenty working days of receipt. However, we will endeavour to answer your enquiry as soon as possible.

Regards

Renfrewshire Council

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Mark Wilson, Renfrewshire Council

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Dear Mr Docherty

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 Request

 

Information Requested

 

Renfrewshire Council received your request for information on 31^st March
2023.  You wrote:

 

I am requesting the following information to which I am entitled under the
freedom of Information Act 2000.
- The average wait time for council housing for priority 1 (or highest
priority) in 2022
- The average wait times for council housing for priority 2 (or medium
priority) in 2022
- The average wait time for council housing for priority 3 (or lowest
priority) in 2022 

 

Response:

In relation to your request please see table below.  Please note
information based on lets for financial year 2022/23 (1^st April 2022 –
31^st March 2023).

 

Allocation policy groups No of lets Average of days on
list
Homeless Group 316 160
Mobility Group 98 277
General Applicants Group 265 151
Transfer Applicants Group (with housing 72 267
need)
Transfer Applicants Group (no housing need) 13 373
Regeneration applicants 73 620
Sheltered housing applicants 42 226
Special lets/Management transfer 66 52
Grand Total 945 212

 

I hope this is of some interest

 

Review Procedure

 

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Council has dealt with
your request, you are entitled to require the Council to review its
decision. 

 

A copy of the Council’s review procedures is detailed in the attachment.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Mark Wilson

Assistant Planning and Policy Development Officer
Service Planning and Development (Communities and Housing Services)
Chief Executive's Service
Renfrewshire House
Cotton Street
Paisley
PA1 1JD

 

 

 

 

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This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.
If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager.
Renfrewshire Council may, in accordance with the Telecommunications(Lawful
Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000,
intercept e-mail messages for the purpose of monitoring or keeping a
record of communications on the Council's system. If a message contains
inappropriate dialogue it will automatically be intercepted by the
Council's Internal Audit section who will decide whether or not the e-mail
should be onwardly transmitted to the intended recipient(s).

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