Freedom of Information request - housing
Dear Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council,
My name is Tymoteusz Gozdzik and I am an economics student at the University of Warwick.
As part of a year-long university research project in applied 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
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 .csv
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,
Tymoteusz Gozdzik,
Economics student at the University of Warwick
Dear Sir / Madam
REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
With reference to your request for information held by Causeway Coast and
Glens Borough Council under the above legislation.
Response:
The Council has undertaken a search of its records and failed to locate
any relevant records to your request based on the information you have
provided. Accordingly Council can confirm that it does not hold the
information to which you seek access.
Under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act which places a duty on
public authorities “to provide advice and assistance” this maybe because
local authorities in Northern Ireland do not have legislative
responsibility for housing or homelessness. For further information see:
[1]http://www.nihe.gov.uk/index/advice/home...
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is the Regional Strategic Housing
Authority for Northern Ireland and The Department for Communities is the
sponsoring department for the Housing Executive.
You may want to contact the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for further
assistance. They can be contacted at:
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
The Records Officer, 5th Floor
The Housing Centre
2 Adelaide Street
Belfast BT2 8PB
E-mail: [2][email address]
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Ireland and other statutory partners please refer to Northern Ireland’s
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Jane Johnston
Business Support Assistant. Policy, Equality & Community Planning
[email address]
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