Purchase of Section 106 Affordable Housing by Sage Housing

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Dear East Suffolk Council,

I write to you in order to request the information set out below. My request is pursuant to the FOIA.

The information requested relates to the purchase of Section 106 affordable housing units in the local authority area by the company Sage Housing over the last three years.

The information I seek is:

1) the number of applications made by Sage Housing to acquire Section 106 affordable housing units in each calendar year of 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

2) the planning reference number that each application applies to

3) For each development in which Sage Housing has acquired Section 106 units between 01/01/2017 and 24/01/2020:

i) The name of the development
ii) The planning reference number
iii) The address of the development
iv) The postcode(s) of the development
v) The number of affordable units in the development
vi) The housing tenure mix (e.g social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership)
vii) The decision date (date/month/year)
viii) The date until when the units are contracted with Sage Housing to stay affordable
(date/month/year)
ix) The price paid by Sage Housing to acquire the development (if known)
x) For rental units, if the council has nomination rights to the first lets, what percentage of units will the council have nomination rights for on subsequent lets?
xi) List any requests made by Sage Housing to alter or amend the original Section 106 agreement and whether the council agreed to these.
xii) Whether the development is a completed or a forthcoming (“starts on site”) development

4) For each development please attach the viability assessment

5) For each unit acquired by Sage Housing:
i) The name of the unit’s development
ii) The unit’s address
iii) The price paid by Sage Housing to acquire the unit (if known)
iv) The Land Registry title number

Please provide the information in an excel or CSV format, with the questions and sub-questions as column headings.

If you need clarification please contact me at this email address. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way before the 20th working day.

I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully,

Cat McShane

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Dear Cat McShane

 

Thank you for your request, which we have given the above reference
number.

 

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Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and/or Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOI) and will usually be answered within 20 working days.

 

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Helen

 

 

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Dear Cat McShane

Please find attached the response to your request.

Please note: prior to 1 April 2019, East Suffolk Council operated as two
distinct Councils, Suffolk Coastal District Council (SCDC) and Waveney
District Council (WDC), working in partnership. Where figures for
financial years prior to 2019/20 are held separately, they will be
included separately.

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Dear Sara,
Many thanks for your swift reply. I do have a clarification point.
We know that there are Section 106 properties owned by Sage at, for example
1-39 (odds), Smock Mill Road, Felixstowe IP11 9FE
1 - 67 (odd) Stables Road, Felixstowe, IP11 9FG
53 to 69 (odd) Walton Hall Drive, Felixstowe
Sage Housing is also the Registered Provider at the Melton Hill site DC/19/2641/FUL and this information is lodged in the East Suffolk planning portal.
Please confirm East Suffolk Council has no information on the purchase, management and tenanting (in the case of affordable rent homes) of these or other affordable homes in the area owned by Sage Housing. If you don't have any information, please explain why it's not held and advise if it is a different planning authority that I need to approach.
Your sincerely,
Cat

FOI, East Suffolk Council

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Dear Cat McShane

 

Thank you for your request, which we have given the above reference
number.

 

Your request will be dealt with under the terms of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and/or Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOI) and will usually be answered within 20 working days.

 

If your EIR request is particularly complex or requires the retrieval of a
large amount of information, we may extend this to 40 working days. If
this is the case, we will notify you as soon as it becomes apparent.

While no charges are made for the submission of requests, the council is
entitled to apply reasonable costs for disbursements (i.e. photocopying,
postage etc). Where charges apply we will notify you before releasing the
information.  Please see our published fees and charges:
[1]http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/yourcounci....

 

If you have any queries about this request please contact us at the email
address below.

Please quote the above reference number in any future communications.

 

Please note that for requests received on non-working days the 20 working
days will be calculated from the start of the next business day.

 

Regards,

Sebastian

[2][IMG] Sebastian | Customer Services

[3][IMG][4][IMG][5][IMG][6][IMG][7][IMG] East Suffolk Council

0333 016 2000

[8]www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk

[9]www.eastsuffolkmeansbusiness.co.uk

 

East Suffolk Council is a new
district authority which, from April
2019, delivers services for the
residents, businesses and communities
previously served by Suffolk Coastal
and Waveney District Councils

 

 

 

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Dear Car McShane,

 

Please find attached the response to your request.

Please note: prior to 1 April 2019, East Suffolk Council operated as two
distinct Councils, Suffolk Coastal District Council (SCDC) and Waveney
District Council (WDC), working in partnership. Where figures for
financial years prior to 2019/20 are held separately, they will be
included separately.

Copyright and re-use of information

Information for which the Council holds the copyright may be used for
private purposes but must not be used for commercial purposes unless you
have advised us you wish to re-use it and you have our permission to do
so.

Published datasets may be reused under the [1]Open Government Licence for
public sector information.

In certain circumstances, the Council may be required to disclose
information for which it does not hold the copyright. In these
circumstances you must respect the rights of the copyright owner and seek
the copyright owner’s permission to re-use the information.

Please refer to the East Suffolk [2]FOI page for more information about
reuse of information.

This concludes your request.

If you require translation of the information you have been sent, please
contact us.

We proactively publish information and encourage you to check our website
before making a request.

The FOI webpage contains links to some of our most [3]frequently requested
information which is already published on the website.

If you have any queries or are dissatisfied with the information we have
provided in response to your request, please contact us at the email
address below. 

Details of our Internal Review process can be found on the East
Suffolk [4]FOI page.

More information about how we deal with requests under the Freedom of
Information Act, Environmental Information Regulations and Data Protection
legislation can be found in the [5]Access to Information pages of our
website.

Please quote the above reference number in any communication about this
request.

Regards

Rachael

[6][IMG] Rachael Durrant | FOI Team

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01502 523627

[12]www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk

[13]www.eastsuffolkmeansbusiness.co.uk

 

East Suffolk Council is a new district
authority which, from April 2019,
delivers services for the residents,
businesses and communities previously
served by Suffolk Coastal and Waveney
District Councils

 

 

 

 

From: FOI <[email address]>
Sent: 11 February 2020 12:09
To: Gareth Davies <[FOI #638619 email]>
Subject: FOI174008889 - Clarification on: Purchase of Section 106
Affordable Housing by Sage Housing

 

Dear Cat McShane

 

Thank you for your request, which we have given the above reference
number.

 

Your request will be dealt with under the terms of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and/or Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOI) and will usually be answered within 20 working days.

 

If your EIR request is particularly complex or requires the retrieval of a
large amount of information, we may extend this to 40 working days. If
this is the case, we will notify you as soon as it becomes apparent.

While no charges are made for the submission of requests, the council is
entitled to apply reasonable costs for disbursements (i.e. photocopying,
postage etc). Where charges apply we will notify you before releasing the
information.  Please see our published fees and charges:
[14]http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/yourcounci....

 

If you have any queries about this request please contact us at the email
address below.

Please quote the above reference number in any future communications.

 

Please note that for requests received on non-working days the 20 working
days will be calculated from the start of the next business day.

 

Regards,

Sebastian

[15][IMG] Sebastian | Customer Services

[16][IMG][17][IMG][18][IMG][19][IMG][20][IMG] East Suffolk Council

0333 016 2000

[21]www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk

[22]www.eastsuffolkmeansbusiness.co.uk

 

East Suffolk Council is a new district
authority which, from April 2019,
delivers services for the residents,
businesses and communities previously
served by Suffolk Coastal and Waveney
District Councils

 

 

 

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