Purchase of Section 106 Affordable Housing by Sage Housing
Dear Walsall Metropolitan 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
Dear Mr Davies
Request for Information RFI-1040-20
Thank you for your request for information relating to Purchase of Section
106 Affordable Housing by Sage Housing which was received on 24 January
2020.
In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
the council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges.
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tell you why.
If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you again.
In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.
Yours sincerely,
Fakhara Qanwal
Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,
Civic Centre,
Darwall Street,
Walsall, WS1 1DG
Tel: 0800 0856 018
Email: [Walsall Council request email]
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Dear Mr Davies,
Freedom of Information Request RFI-1040-20
Further to your request for information about Purchase of Section 106
Affordable Housing by Sage Housing, I can tell you the following:
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.- None
I can also tell you that under the FOI Act information which is in the
public domain is exempt from disclosure under the provisions of section
21. Section 21 sets out that the local authority need not provide
information under the FOI Act where the information requested is ‘
reasonably accessible’ by other means.
Information in relation to planning applications can be found at the
following
location: [1]http://planning.walsall.gov.uk/swift/apa...
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Information Act 2000 requests will be subject to copyright protection. In
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You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
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I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you should set out in writing your grounds for complaint and
send to: Corporate Assurance Manager, Resources & Transformation, Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1TP.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a decision.
Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF. [2]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Yours sincerely
Emma Thomas
Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,
Civic Centre,
Darwall Street,
Walsall, WS1 1DG
Tel: 0800 0856 018
Email: [Walsall Council request email]
Service area: [3]walsall.gov.uk/ Information Governance and Assurance
Website: [4]www.walsall.gov.uk
[5]http://int.walsall.gov.uk/portals/0/Comm...
Disclaimer: IF THIS EMAIL IS MARKED PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL - PLEASE
RESPECT CONFIDENTIALITY AND DO NOT SHARE OR FORWARD IT TO ANYONE ELSE
WITHOUT THE EXPRESS CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR. The information in this message
should be regarded as confidential and is intended for the addressee only
unless explicitly stated. If you have received this message in error it
must be deleted and the sender notified. The views expressed in this
message are personal and not necessarily those of Walsall MBC unless
explicitly stated. E-mails sent or received from Walsall MBC may be
intercepted and read by the Council. Interception will only occur to
ensure compliance with Council policies or procedures or regulatory
obligations, to prevent or detect crime. You should also be aware that any
email may be the subject of a request under Data Protection, Freedom of
Information or Environmental Information legislation and therefore could
be disclosed to third parties.
E-mail Security: Communication by internet email is not secure as
messages can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore we
strongly advise you not to email any information, which if disclosed to
unrelated third parties would be likely to cause harm or distress. If you
have an enquiry of this nature please provide a postal address to allow us
to communicate with you in a more secure way. If you want us to respond by
email you must realise that there can be no guarantee of privacy.
References
Visible links
1. http://planning.walsall.gov.uk/swift/apa...
2. https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
3. https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
4. https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
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