Definition of Homes on the Empty Homes Register
Dear Lambeth Borough Council,
Please could you provide me with the criteria for a home to be on Lambeth's official Empty Homes Register?
Yours faithfully,
Sabine Mairey
Information request
Our reference: IRN23679885
Your reference: [FOI #1078436 email]
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Your reference: [FOI #1078436 email]
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Dear Sabine Mairey,
Thank you for your request for information received on 29 January 2024.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely
FOI Team
London Borough of Lambeth
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Lambeth - a Co-operative Council
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Dear Lambeth Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Lambeth Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Definition of Homes on the Empty Homes Register'.
This is the most bizarre response. It contradicts the information supplied to this FOI https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n...
In the FOI stated above, I ask how many Lambeth-owned homes are empty on estates, to which I was answered nearly 750.
In the response to this one, the second FOI, it implies Lambeth owns none of the homes on its empty homes register. If this is the case, who owns the 53 officially empty properties on Central Hill, as found on the register?
The response from the earlier Foi, who's link is above, indicates many homes have been empty for less than six months. The criteria in the second one states that they need to have been empty for six months to qualify to be on the register. It makes no sense.
Yours,
Sabine Mairey.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...
Yours faithfully,
Sabine Mairey
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