Housing Benefit

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Dear Lewisham Borough Council,

Please provide the names of the 20 landlords (excluding Housing Associations) whose tenants collectively received the largest amounts of Housing Benefit from your Council in the financial year 2016/17. From your records of payments you are able to link to landlords, can you please provide me with the amount in pounds of total Housing Benefits paid for each of their tenants for each of the top 20 in that year?

Yours faithfully,

Sherrelle Collman

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear Ms Collman

 

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Rahman, Davina, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear Sherelle

 

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

 

Thank you for your request for information held by London Borough of
Lewisham. I have included below a copy of your request, followed by the
Council’s response (next to each heading).

 

Please provide the names of the 20 landlords (excluding Housing
Associations) whose tenants collectively received the largest amounts of
Housing Benefit from your Council in the financial year 2016/17. From your
records of payments you are able to link to landlords, can you please
provide me with the amount in pounds of total Housing Benefits paid for
each of their tenants for each of the top 20 in that year?

 

In response, the Council can confirm that the information provided below
is the amount of housing benefit (HB) paid to the top 20 landlords. Please
note that we can’t provide the information for those landlords where HB is
paid to the claimant and not the landlord.

 

Landlord Benefit paid
LOCAL HOUSING SOLUTIONS         £683,222.91
POINTVIEW ESTATES                £594,086.84
EASY LET HOUSING LTD            £413,536.60
OMEGA HOUSING LIMITED           £347,950.19
GREEN PARK PROPERTY LTD         £300,912.92
MILTON PROPERTIES LTD           £235,728.07
AMITY ESTATES LTD               £229,642.67
MR ADEWALE OGUNYEMI             £214,233.19
MANLOW PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LTD  £204,262.17
AMITY ESTATES LTD               £198,844.37
MARISA INVESTMENTS LTD          £197,336.72
BH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT          £194,389.30
CCL LTD                         £181,762.98
GRANGEVIEW ESTATES              £174,324.24
ON THE HOUSE ESTATE             £174,005.35
MR RAYMOND ROBSON               £167,944.53
SOUTH LONDON ESTATES            £164,713.05
BINTONS LTD                     £160,584.84
LODGE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT       £159,080.39

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Davina

Corporate Complaints

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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