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

Hyndburn Borough Council did not have the information requested.

Martina Radovanic

Dear Hyndburn Borough Council,

My name is Martina Radovanic 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 the 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 the 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:
Essential data:
Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and Social
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 the present time.
Area Covered: As large as possible (eg. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time)
Optional data:
Additional information: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .txt
 
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...
 
Thank you for your time in considering my request.

Yours faithfully,

Martina Radovanic
PPE student at the University of Warwick

foirequests, Hyndburn Borough Council

Dear Martina Radovanic

Your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 has been considered and a response is below:

The council does not have social housing stock. We carried out a LSVT (Large scale voluntary transfer) in 2006 and we have approx 14 registered providers across Hyndburn with the largest being Onward Homes.

If you have any queries or concerns or if you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request then please contact me at Legal and Democratic Services, Hyndburn Borough Council, Scaitcliffe House, Ormerod Street, Accrington, Lancashire BB5 0PF or: [Hyndburn Borough Council request email]

If you are still dissatisfied then you can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF Telephone: 01625 545 700 www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

FOI Co-ordinator
Hyndburn Borough Council

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