Data on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021

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Nine Spahr
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Dear Fenland District Council,

My name is Nine Spahr and I am a third year PPE student at the University of Warwick. 
As part of a university research scheme in economics, I am studying the evolution of Council's social housing stock. The project is supervised by Thiemo Fetzer, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.
I came across the available data on aggregate social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales at local authority level. However, more detailed information would be of great assistance in answering my research question. Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I would like access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical level, on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021. 
Ideally, the data would follow the following format: 
Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and Social/Council housing stock 
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (eg. full postcode or full address) 
Time unit: As granular as possible (eg. Date) 
Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and present time. 
Area covered: As large as possible (eg. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time) 
Additional information: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics. 
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .txt.

Thank you for your time in considering my request.

Yours faithfully, 

Nine Spahr, PPE student at the University of Warwick

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Dear Nine Spahr

 

Thank you for your request for information which was received on
31/02/23.  We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

 

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Dear Nina Spahr

 

Thank you for your request for information which we received on 30/01/23.
We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

 

I am writing to advise you that, following a search of our paper and
electronic records,  data is not collected on these specific questions and
the information you requested is not held by this Authority.  Fenland
District Council sold its Council housing stock in 2007 to Roddons Housing
Association, who have now been absorbed into Clarion Housing Group.  They
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