Information on tenancies
Dear Greenwich Borough Council,
I am writing to request the properties tenanted by people who go to prison.
How many have you done this for in the last 6 years?
Whats the longest you've held the property for them?
Whats the longest youve stored items for individuals of whom have been evicted?
Why was a hoarder from polthorne estates held for 15 months?
Can you remove goods with a possession order without knowing or listing items within a property?
Whats the procedure in order to get a possession order?
Yours faithfully,
Lee Francis
Dear Mr Francis
Freedom of Information request: FOI-67180
Thank you for your request dated 03 August 2022
Your request will be answered by 01 September 2022.
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
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Dear Mr Francis
Freedom of Information request: FOI-67180
We have just been advised that the Directorate responsible for your
enquiry, will reply to you directly and outside of the FOI process. This
is because the information you require does not constitute an FOI request.
Therefore, FOI-67180 is now closed and the department will contact you in
due course.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
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From: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Sent: 04 August 2022 12:24
To: 'Lee Francis' <[FOI #884177 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: FOI-67180: Freedom of Information request - Information on
tenancies
Dear Mr Francis
Freedom of Information request: FOI-67180
Thank you for your request dated 03 August 2022
Your request will be answered by 01 September 2022.
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
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Dear David,
I am still awaiting this information. Please get your colleagues to send the information you've stated you can supply.
The information does not breach anything or anyone so should be allowed in the public domain.
Yours sincerely,
Lee Francis
Dear david
The directorate has not sent or emailed me about my request as you suggested. By law you should have by now and I expect the answers please
Yours sincerely,
Lee Francis
Dear Francis,
We have no way of recording or running a report on tenancies where tenants
are in prison. We are not always aware that a tenant is in prison.
We are unable to answer the question ‘What is the longest you have held
properties for them?’ as tenancy do not hold these records.
The longest we have stored items for individuals who have been evicted is
for 28 days.
Due to data protection we cannot provide information regarding specific
cases.
In regards to removing goods with a possession order, an inventory is
always taken place.
The procedure to get a possession order if there is anti-social behaviour
or rent arrears, is to apply to the court where the judge will issue a
court order.
We hope this answers all your enquiries.”
Thank you
Kind regards,
Tenancy Support Team – Tenancy Services
Housing and Safer Communities
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 8609
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Dear Tenancy-Enforcement-Teams,
I have to on good authority You have held properties open for tenants who have been in prison who then come out and go back to he same property one as long as 5 years. This is a breach of your tenancy please see YOUR TENANCY AGREEMENT UNDER ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND COMMITING CRIMES WHILST A TENANT.
You have held property storage for longer than 6 months one case in particular one property on polthorne Estate in which a horder had excess amounts of things in their property and it was held beyond 6months. I know this as a relative of mine was chair of the estate.
Your actions in which you state you take and the actual procedure you have wrote is broken down.
You do not have a right to remove or dispose of items until time limits and the attempts to contact said ex tenant and owner of said things has been exhausted via every avenue phone email letter to forwarding address of any.
An itemised list is to be taken for selling of any can be sold to recoup any monies owed.
If this cannot be done a list is to be taken of all items and put in storage with photographic evidence of said items this means individual photographs of items not room photos as you gave me that and the receipts and proof I have show also you did not go through anything and no bailiff or paperwork was given to me of any of thisnor was it electronically logged which it is to be by law. Before action were taken. The storage cost is to be added to the outstanding bill and is to be stored for 28 days minimum unless a court order states otherwise.
I have evidence no such attempts were made and as much as I understand the council is not a storage facility you clearly state you store items therefore it was a descriminatory and targeted act in which you acted unlawfully against me as you threw my belongings away after three days proving you didn't follow procedures I also have it in writing that this is how its done and you do what you want with my property which well its not is it it's a breach if my human rights under the human rights act 1998 and the people who dealt with it were not the correct staff or a housing officer present as I fortunately was contacted by as neighbour and caught you in the act and got photos of my sofa cut in half furniture smashed up identification in communal bins and staff sifting through things they even went as far as to try and keep my trolley jack and when I picked it up had the cheek to say I was stealing my property. Nothing was salvageable, valuables missing, or thrown and everything in tower block metal bins so contaminated and biohazard. You then sent me int he same email you'll do what you want that you stored my broken items but claimed to not be a storage facility. The abilities and professionalism of the council staff is laughable four staff members Lynn Richardson Carol Bailey Gaby Moore all claimed they followed procedures failed to give details when requested for on the eviction but assured me it was done correctly. All its proven is that when they want to the council staff over step the mark they also new the disputed amounts were not resolved and thus should never have taken it to court.
The water rates wasn't resolved and thus is a discount
The months I had been disputing you failed to give me details of the periods throughout I have the evidence of this via emails between said people and myself. I have now after being left homeless nameless unable to prove my identity attacked for being homeless in which you have a photograph of my face from the time. I have now after 4 years of grueling and tiring back and forth with banks hmrc passports office because you illegally destroyed my passport companies to prove what I had in my possession along with photographs I've had to try and retrace and its still not fully done.
The handling of the eviction and build up to it you infringed my. Human rights throughout by way of not giving me the information, not allowing me to live peacefully with my daughter, by way of not resolving issues you werw using to get me out but not helping when asking for information in order for me to send things like bank statements you now have this you'll find I had no arrears as I wasn't given the correct support ie housing benefit and other entitlement due to my low wage. I was actually denied it as you based it on a fixed wage and not a self employed wage which changes month to month I was inexperienced and was told I had to be working to live there which was also a lie as many people were on benefits within the block. You was told I was struggling mentally and I had a disablement from a motorcycle accident and the situation was making me more depressed but continued to hold me accountable for something you failed to actually resolve with details from my end.
What the council has proven and now on a public forum is that you do not act accordingly to the law.
You do not treat people with dignity.
You target and harass and bully individuals rather than help deal with what's needed.
You do not follow procedures.
You will try everything in your power including taking false arrears and disputed cases to courts and lie. Where you also used desperate tactics like fob usage as a way to get a person with a disablement out if their home.
The staff members You have no morals.
Everything above without further information given to me conflicts and contradicts the way you managed my eviction I've spent 4 years and 5 months getting evidence and proof form several staff members in different occasions who all assure me they followed procedure to the book cannot give any information on my eviction and proof that if any should now appear out of the blue its falsified as when the data request that was also made on this twice for the electronically logged data aswell as paperwork emails etc you could not give this information. Which is why I have a claim against the council for breaking the law and destroying and man and child's life like it was nothing. The only comparable to what I've experienced is a house fire or burglary it's both you went through my things without the right to do so made judgment to destroy break and dispose of my things. Then to be accused of stealing when I salvage one item. Its degrading and disgusting and the trauma and problems it caused me because you failed to listen acknowledge and provide details of what was required, dates of arrears to supply statements and between you and dwp failed to support me and my daughter who had recently been estranged from her mother and put in my care with nothing. 5 months I was left with no money for my daughter struggling with my disablement getting no assistance to resolve what is now proven shouldn't have been the case and I shouldn't have lost my home. You faiked throughout and the staff made it a personal dispute and a witch hunt against again someone who was recovering and resolving a disablement and made a single dad overnight who wasn't getting the support he was entitled to. I now have an undiagnosed PTSD I cannot stay with strangers I trust nobody with anything of mine or what people tell me. I see it as if the local authority can do this then ANYONE can your meant to support the local community not target individuals because they're defending themselves when their already vulnerable.
Yours sincerely,
Lee Francis
Thank you for your email to the Tenancy Services.
Tenancy Services deal with anti-social behaviour involving council
tenants, making changes to council tenancies and garage and bike space
rental.
We will respond to your email within 10 working days, or forward your
email to the relevant team to respond.
Dear Greenwich Borough Council,
This is nto good enough you've had apt time to resolve this.
Based on your information and handling of my eviction and lack of communication between departments and staff.
You have infringed my human rights
By way of eviction and my tenancy the court proceedings and handling throughout. Also adding serving the court with disputed arrears knowing it was not correct deceiving the judge onto assuming I was wrong false representation On your part.
You have discriminated and singled me out compared with the protocols and way of dealing with other tenants/ex tenants. By way of my eviction and entering the property after three days and allowing an under qualified person with no support of any workers to violate my privacy and rights by interfering with my property this is also negligence by all staff members involved as it was done with no authority by me or any court to remove break or destroy or dispose of my property. You had no disposal order as there was no itemised listing with phototgraphs supporting this. No council worker apart from the workers spent more than 10 minutes in the flat before changing locks and leaving a notice on the door or the three days it took to clear it. It would have taken at least a while day to catalogue and photograph it all. This would be for you to get a control of goods order which is can only happen once you've exhausted avenues contacting me and 14-28 days have passed. You then can apply for the order to then move my belongings to storage all of which is to be photographed and listed electronically as is the belongings binned due to sharps or biohazard circumstances to note what was done. It's then to be put in storage and then and only then can you get a disposal order. None of the above was done but my belongings were destroyed beyond repair as was my daughters therefore its criminal damage by a negligent under qualifying persons who were following orders of Lynn Richardson who was nto even present neither was Carol Bailey the hosuong offcieer dealing with the tenancy or eviction. You were caught ont eh 6th day by myself I witnessed my things gone smashed up stuck in communal bins making it all a biohazard ams irreparable my sofa threw piece suite recliner three seater was cut in half and my armchairs ripped open clearly looking for change or things in the chair they took watches jewellery computers printers tools they even tried telling me I was a thief when I took back my trolley jack I found they were trying to steal from me telling me its not mine. Are you kidding me. This to levels shows the same people who are in our community and work for the council are under qualified, behave disgustingly to individuals seek personal vendetta against tenants, do not know procedures for their actual job roles or break them when suits. Please be aware I have evidence of every single thing I'm pointing out. You have evidently broke the law and have proven this OK an open forum for all to see. This means that any evictions similar or the same as mine were unlawful and I will not only going to the police with the new evidence and admittance on your part here and the contradictions given via email but also will be requesting an investigation into said situations especially those involving vulnerable or disabled people. I had and still have my disablement as a laberal tear/issue never goes away. You had a duty of care and you breached it in every way possible my only crime as a tenant being in arrears that I've proven since I shouldn't have had let down at 17 when you turned me away at the housing failed to support me before and after the tenancy even after what you did and never once have you apologised for the abuse you caused and I suffered.
Yours faithfully,
Lee Francis
Dear Greenwich Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Greenwich Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Information on tenancies'.
Any internal stage 1 investigations and a stage 2 were undertaken in which admittance of guilt was made. Still both were flawed investigations. Whilst defending the emails sent by the housing officer involved. You've changed three times who was present at the eviction
Stated you stored items for me failing to acknowledge since 2018 and 9 staff members and insurance the photographic evidence provided.
This was as they had been caught red handed smashing my things to pieces an attempt at covering themselves for their actions.
Now as you have admitted you did not follow your own section 41 notice and an attempt at compensating me for that. You also cannot provide any documents proving ownership or proof of me relinquishing ownership to you You have admitted you had no rights to the items. This is Criminal damage via the interference with goods act, excessive force used.
I'll expect any and all items I have listed to your insurance replaced at cost due to the criminal act of the council and its staff.
I'll also expect any losses incurred and the accounting of the stress and alienation endured to be compensated due to the destruction of my identification and paperwork causing direct inability to gain access to benefits, register at housing or similar organisations, the inability to access basic amenities and use my bank due to the identification issues, the destruction and disposal or theft of my tools for work directly meaning I could not work, no identification no income or benefits means no ability to get housing medications, doctors.
So the complaints stage 1 for investigating the first two investigations executed on this matter needs to be made.
By actual investigators who look at all evidence provided and not just one side that suits them.
Your proving to me that regardless of whether your qualified for your positions none of the staff know how to execute their jobs lawfully as directed by the law. Requirements for retraining a must.
Also investigations into the staff and the ongoings at river heights as the manager has just resigned due to money mismanagement and fraud
The LGSCO and housing ombudsman have been contacted also.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
Yours faithfully,
Lee Francis
Dear Mr Francis
Thank you for your recent email requesting an Internal Review.
However, an email was sent to you on 17/08/2022, advising you that this
FOI was closed and the reason for closing it (please see attached).
Therefore, an Internal Review can not be logged for a case that was not
dealt with by the FOI team.
Your email has been forwarded to the team that was dealing with your
request.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ
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