Illegal sublets by council tenants

Dear Jacob Paul

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was logged under
FOI 24/83 SOUTH and passed to me to respond accordingly.

Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) you
are entitled to be informed in writing whether the council holds the
information specified in your request.

Dear South Oxfordshire District Council,

This is a Freedom of Information request under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.

From the time period between 2021 and 2024 please provide the data for the
number of council  flats and houses that were found to be illegally sublet
for each year.

For each case, please provide a description as to what happened. i.e
outcome, prosecution, fines and please explain the platform or method used
to rent out the property e.g Airbnb or Zoopla and how it was discovered.

Although South Oxfordshire District Council has recently registered as a
Social Housing Provider, the council is not currently renting any social
or affordable rented properties. South Oxfordshire District Council was
part of an LSVT transferring their housing stock to SOHA in 1997.
Therefore, you may wish to request this information from them. However,
housing associations are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Please treat this as the councils’ formal response under the 2000 Act.  If
you are not satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your
request, you may make a request for an internal review by emailing
[1][South Oxfordshire District Council request email] within 40 working days from the date we issued our
response.  If you remain dissatisfied after following that procedure, you
have the right under Section 50 of the 2000 Act to complain to the
Information Commissioner if you feel the council has not dealt with your
request properly. You can contact the Commissioner at Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone number: 0303 123 1113).
You can also find further information at [2]www.ico.org.uk.

Kind regards

Information Governance Team

Legal & Democratic Services
South Oxfordshire District Council

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To find out more about how the council holds, uses and stores your
personal data, please click on the link below

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