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Good morning Mr Davies

Thank you  for your FOI request, your request has been allocated the above
unique reference number, please use this reference number in any future
correspondence regarding this request.

Section 1(1)(a) of the FOI Act states that an applicant must be told in
writing whether the public body holds information of the description
specified in the request.

Northampton Borough Council (the Council) can confirm that following a
review of our records and discussions with the Council’s Housing Strategy
Officer, the Planning Service is not aware of any sites within the
administrative area of Northampton Borough Council, that include
residential units acquired by Sage Housing.

The Council therefore holds no information relating to your request and is
unable to proceed further with your request.

This is not a refusal notice as there is no information to refuse to
release

With kind regards

Stephanie Everitt | Information Governance Officer

01604 838841

Chief Finance Officer | Northampton Borough Council,

The Guildhall, St Giles Square, Northampton NN1 1DE | 0300 330 7000

From:    Gareth Davies <[FOI #638731 email]>

Sent:     24 January 2020 11:55

To:          Requests

Subject:               Freedom of Information request - Purchase of
Section 106 Affordable

Housing by Sage Housing

Dear Northampton Borough 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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