Information on all right to buy sales and applications in last 5 years
Dear Newham Borough Council,
Please could I request information on all council properties in which an application was made for the Right to Buy scheme (irrespective of whether the property ultimately ended up being sold) in the last 5 years including this year to date.
For each property, could you also provide:
- current status (e.g. offer given, pending HMRC valuation, offer accepted, sold)
- address (as precise as is possible)
- number of bedrooms
- initial council/landlord valuation and date of valuation
- if initial council/landlord valuation contested by tenant, then valuation from district valuer from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and date of this valuation
- discount given
- amount the property was sold for (if sold) and date of sale
Please could the information be provided in CSV / Excel format, with each property application and relevant information as above given on a new row.
Yours faithfully,
Maryam Begom
Information request
Our reference: 17593237
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Dear Maryam Begom
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 5
September 2022.
We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and we aim to send a response by 3 October 2022.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 may restrict the release of some or
all of the information you have requested. We will carry out an assessment
and if any exemptions apply to some or all of the information you have
requested we will advise you accordingly in our response. We will also
provide you with details of how you may appeal (if appropriate).
Should you require anything further please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
Information Governance
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Dear London Borough of Newham,
Thank you for acknowledging my request for 'Information on all right to buy sales and applications in last 5 years'
As it is now the 3rd of October, an update on this request would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Maryam Begom
Information request
Our reference: 17593237
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Dear Maryam Begom
Thank you for your request for information received on 5 September 2022.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Team
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Dear Newham Borough Council,
Thank you for providing some of the information requested. I note that a previous request to Newham Borough Council (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...) was successful in obtaining information on appeals to the HMRC district valuer and subsequent changes to the valuation given.
If it is not possible to automatically obtain this information for the previous 5 years to date, please could the information on HMRC district valuer valuation be provided for at least the previous 2 years to date in a similar manner to the previous successful request (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...).
Yours faithfully,
Maryam Begom
Information request
Our reference: 18436741
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Dear Maryam Begom
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for further email.
We are unable to presume the information you require from reference to a
link from a request from 2017. Could you please confirm you require the
information stated below;
From 2017 to present
1. How many valuations, resulted in appeals to the district valuer
2. If any, how many of these resulted in an increase of the original
valuation
(a) detail the increase of the original valuation
3. If any, how many of these resulted in a reduction in the original
valuation
(b) detail the reduction of the original valuation
Please confirm this wording for your request or revise and resubmit for
further response.
I will not be able to take this matter further without this extra
information from you. Please let me know by 25/10/2022.
If I do not hear from you within the time frame provided, I shall take it
that you do not wish to pursue this request and will consider the request
closed.
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Team
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Dear London Borough of Newham,
Thank you for your response. We would like the information as requested in the initial FOI request. In response to asking for the following: "if initial council/landlord valuation contested by tenant, then valuation from district valuer from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and date of this valuation", the response given was : "Our reporting system cannot facilitate this request for information in an automated format."
In response to this we referenced a previous request from 2017 in which it was possible to provide this information. We are requesting that information on valuation from the HMRC district valuer be given, and if it is not possible to do so in automated manner, then please provide this information for at least the last 2 years to date manually.
If you require any further clarification on this request, I am happy to clarify further but I hope it is now clear.
Yours sincerely,
Maryam Begom
Information request
Our reference: 17593237
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Dear Maryam Begom
Thank you for your request for a review of the information previously
extended to you. I am sorry that you are dissatisfied with our attempts to
handle your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You have
noted a prior FOI request from 2017 which provided information in respect
of Right to Buy valuations where the information was provided. In your
recent request the response stated it was not now possible to recover this
data from our system.
We can confirm that we have reverted your comments back to the service to
determine as to whether the currently requested information may be sourced
by alternative methods. We will provide you with our Internal Review
response as soon as this has been completed.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Maryam Begom
We write in further response to your request for a review of the
information previously extended to you in respect of Right to Buy
valuations. This has taken longer than original anticipate and we are
grateful for your continued patience in this matter.
Please now find attached our response to your Internal Review request.
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Team
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