Housing Allocation/ 3 bedroom properties
Dear Newham Borough Council,
1) Please can you breakdown the 5,786 on the Newham allocation scheme how many from each group require a three bedroom property?
2) How many applicants who require a 3 bedroom property have been on the Newham register 12 years plus?
3) Based on the Newham allocation, how many three bedroom properties have been successfully awarded to each group. Please include direct offers.
4) How many three bedroom properties have successfully been awarded to a Newham Secure tenant?
5) Of the 5,786 applicants how many currently are in one bedroom accommodation require a three bedroom property waiting 12 years plus?
6) The average waiting time was 12 years 9 months for Successful applicants who currently attracts reasonable preference award with employment priority for a three bedroom property. How many successful applicants in this group waited pass the average?
For the above questions, please answer for whatever is the most recent period for which data is available (and specify the period).
Yours faithfully,
Miss Cassandra Amma
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Dear Miss Amma
Thank you for your request for information received on 19 October 2020.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely
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Dear London Borough of Newham,
I have clarified question one.
I have now stipulated an exact time frame.
Please can I be provided answers to the questions below.
1) Please can you breakdown the 5,786 on the Newham allocation scheme how many from each group require a three-bedroom property?
5,786 on the Newham allocation scheme refers to the number of applicants on the housing register who require a 3-bed property.
I would like the number of applicants in each group broken down
• Members of the armed forces.
• Additional preference group such as emergency.
• Urgent decants.
• Under-occupation transfers and transfer from adapted properties.
• Less urgent decants.
• Priority homeseeker
• Transfer in employment.
• Priority homeseeker and transfer.
• Priority homeseeker and transfer with reduced priority.
• Homeseeker
• Homeseeker with reduced priority
For the above question, please answer for whatever is the most recent period for which data is available (and specify the period).
3) Based on the Newham allocation, how many three-bedroom properties have been successfully awarded to each group. Please include direct offers.
Please can the information be provided separately for each year from January 2015 to date.
4) How many three-bedroom properties have successfully been awarded to a Newham Secure tenant?
Please can the information be provided separately for each year from January 2015 to date.
6) The average waiting time was 12 years 9 months for Successful applicants who currently attracts reasonable preference award with employment priority for a three-bedroom property. How many successful applicants in this group waited pass the average?
For clarification, this time frame is during period 2018/19
Yours sincerely,
Miss Amma
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Our reference: 3506459
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Dear Miss Amma
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 17
November 2020. As this requests additional information to your previous
enquiry, it will be dealt with as a new request for information.
We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and we aim to send a response by 15 December 2020.
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Yours sincerely
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Dear London Borough of Newham,
I have not received my response to my request.
By law, you should have responded promptly by 16 December 2020.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Cassandra Amma
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Our reference: 3506459
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Dear Miss Amma
Thank you for your request for information received on 17 November 2020.
We apologise for the delay in responding to your request.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely
Information Governance
Newham Council
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