Purchase of Section 106 Affordable Housing by Sage Housing
Dear Angus 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 Ms McShane
I refer to your information request dated 24 January 2020 (received by
Angus Council that same day). So that we can provide you with information
which is relevant to you could you please clarify whether you wish to
obtain information from Scotland where Angus Council is based. Presumably
s 106 to which you are referring is a reference to the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990 which does not extend to Scotland. In addition, it is
not clear whether you are referring to purchases of affordable housing
from the council.
Once we have received clarification from you we will respond within the
statutory compliance period.
Please refer to the information below which explains your right to
complain if you are unhappy with how the Council is dealing with your
request.
If you have any queries, please ask for me on 01307 491992 or email
[1][Angus Council request email]
Yours sincerely
Martin Friedrich
___________________________________________
Martin Friedrich | Paralegal-FOI | Legal & Democratic| Angus Council
|Angus House | Orchardbank Business Park | Forfar | DD8 1AN | DX 530678
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004
INSPIRE (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2009
Your Right to Request a Review by the Council
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which Angus Council has dealt with
your request for information under any of the above statutory instruments,
you have a right to ask the council to review its actions and/or decisions
regarding your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your
request to the Director - Legal & Democratic, Angus Council, Angus House,
Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar DD8 1AN or e-mail
[2][Angus Council request email] within 40 working days.
Your request must:
· be in writing (or recordable format);
· give your name and address for correspondence;
· give details of the information which you originally requested
from the council; and
· give the reasons why you are dissatisfied with the way in which
your application for information has been dealt with.
Your application for review will then be considered by the council’s
review panel. The review panel will write to you informing you of its
decision not later than 20 working days after receipt of your request for
a review. The review panel will also provide you with a statement of its
reasons for arriving at the decision it has made.
Your Right to Appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner
If you are dissatisfied with a decision of the council's review panel (or
where the review panel has not provided you with a response), you have the
right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision as
to whether your request for information has been dealt with by the council
in accordance with the above statutory instruments.
Your application to the Scottish Information Commissioner must:
o be in a recordable format (letter, e-mail, audio tape etc);
o give your name and address for correspondence.
o give details of the request for information which you originally
requested from the council;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the council’s response
to your original request;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the decision of the
council's review panel.
In the case of an EIR or FOI request your application to the Scottish
Information Commissioner must be made within 6 months of receipt of the
decision of the council’s review panel (or within 6 months of the date
that the review panel should have responded). No such time limit applies
under the 2009 Regulations.
Appeals to the Commissioner can be lodged online through the following
hyperlink:
[3]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...
or by contacting:
Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St
Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS; Telephone - 01334 464610; Fax - 01334 464611;
Email - [4][email address])
Dear Ms McShane
I refer to your undernoted information request dated 24 January 2020
(received by the Council that same date) and subsequent correspondence.
In this context I would advise that in line with the revised Scottish
Ministers’ Code of Practice we are unable to proceed with your request as
we have not received a response from you. Please refer to the information
set out below which explains your right to complain if you are unhappy
with how the Council has dealt with your request.
If you have any queries, please email
[1][email address]
Yours sincerely
Martin Friedrich
Martin Friedrich | Paralegal - FOI | Angus Council | Tel: 01307 491992 |
DX 530678 FORFAR | [email address] | [2]www.angus.gov.uk
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From: FriedrichM
Sent: 24 January 2020 14:19
To: '[FOI #638496 email]'
<[FOI #638496 email]>
Subject: FOI Request 080/20: Section 106 Affordable Housing/Sage Housing
Dear Ms McShane
I refer to your information request dated 24 January 2020 (received by
Angus Council that same day). So that we can provide you with information
which is relevant to you could you please clarify whether you wish to
obtain information from Scotland where Angus Council is based. Presumably
s 106 to which you are referring is a reference to the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990 which does not extend to Scotland. In addition, it is
not clear whether you are referring to purchases of affordable housing
from the council.
Once we have received clarification from you we will respond within the
statutory compliance period.
Please refer to the information below which explains your right to
complain if you are unhappy with how the Council is dealing with your
request.
If you have any queries, please ask for me on 01307 491992 or email
[3][Angus Council request email]
Yours sincerely
Martin Friedrich
___________________________________________
Martin Friedrich | Paralegal-FOI | Legal & Democratic| Angus Council
|Angus House | Orchardbank Business Park | Forfar | DD8 1AN | DX 530678
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004
INSPIRE (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2009
Your Right to Request a Review by the Council
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which Angus Council has dealt with
your request for information under any of the above statutory instruments,
you have a right to ask the council to review its actions and/or decisions
regarding your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your
request to the Director - Legal & Democratic, Angus Council, Angus House,
Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar DD8 1AN or e-mail
[4][Angus Council request email] within 40 working days.
Your request must:
· be in writing (or recordable format);
· give your name and address for correspondence;
· give details of the information which you originally requested
from the council; and
· give the reasons why you are dissatisfied with the way in which
your application for information has been dealt with.
Your application for review will then be considered by the council’s
review panel. The review panel will write to you informing you of its
decision not later than 20 working days after receipt of your request for
a review. The review panel will also provide you with a statement of its
reasons for arriving at the decision it has made.
Your Right to Appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner
If you are dissatisfied with a decision of the council's review panel (or
where the review panel has not provided you with a response), you have the
right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision as
to whether your request for information has been dealt with by the council
in accordance with the above statutory instruments.
Your application to the Scottish Information Commissioner must:
o be in a recordable format (letter, e-mail, audio tape etc);
o give your name and address for correspondence.
o give details of the request for information which you originally
requested from the council;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the council’s response
to your original request;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the decision of the
council's review panel.
In the case of an EIR or FOI request your application to the Scottish
Information Commissioner must be made within 6 months of receipt of the
decision of the council’s review panel (or within 6 months of the date
that the review panel should have responded). No such time limit applies
under the 2009 Regulations.
Appeals to the Commissioner can be lodged online through the following
hyperlink:
[5]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...
or by contacting:
Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St
Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS; Telephone - 01334 464610; Fax - 01334 464611;
Email - [6][email address])
Dear Ms McShane
Request for Information
I refer to your request for information dated 24 January 2020 (received by
the Council that same day) and subsequent correspondence.
As we have not received a request for review from you the Council now
considers the case to be closed.
Please refer to the information set out below which explains your right to
complain if you are unhappy with how the Council has dealt with your
request.
If you have any queries, please ask for me on 01307 491752 or email
[1][Angus Council request email]
Yours sincerely
Brenda Angus
Brenda Angus | Business Support Assistant | Angus Council | Tel: 01307
491752 | DX 530678 FORFAR | Email: [2][email address] or
[3][email address] |[4]www.angus.gov.uk
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From: FriedrichM
Sent: 20 February 2020 09:00
To: '[FOI #638496 email]'
<[FOI #638496 email]>
Subject: FOI Request 080/20: Section 106 Affordable Housing/Sage Housing
Dear Ms McShane
I refer to your undernoted information request dated 24 January 2020
(received by the Council that same date) and subsequent correspondence.
In this context I would advise that in line with the revised Scottish
Ministers’ Code of Practice we are unable to proceed with your request as
we have not received a response from you. Please refer to the information
set out below which explains your right to complain if you are unhappy
with how the Council has dealt with your request.
If you have any queries, please email
[5][email address]
Yours sincerely
Martin Friedrich
Martin Friedrich | Paralegal - FOI | Angus Council | Tel: 01307 491992 |
DX 530678 FORFAR | [6][email address] | [7]www.angus.gov.uk
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From: FriedrichM
Sent: 24 January 2020 14:19
To: '[FOI #638496 email]'
<[8][FOI #638496 email]>
Subject: FOI Request 080/20: Section 106 Affordable Housing/Sage Housing
Dear Ms McShane
I refer to your information request dated 24 January 2020 (received by
Angus Council that same day). So that we can provide you with information
which is relevant to you could you please clarify whether you wish to
obtain information from Scotland where Angus Council is based. Presumably
s 106 to which you are referring is a reference to the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990 which does not extend to Scotland. In addition, it is
not clear whether you are referring to purchases of affordable housing
from the council.
Once we have received clarification from you we will respond within the
statutory compliance period.
Please refer to the information below which explains your right to
complain if you are unhappy with how the Council is dealing with your
request.
If you have any queries, please ask for me on 01307 491992 or email
[9][Angus Council request email]
Yours sincerely
Martin Friedrich
___________________________________________
Martin Friedrich | Paralegal-FOI | Legal & Democratic| Angus Council
|Angus House | Orchardbank Business Park | Forfar | DD8 1AN | DX 530678
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004
INSPIRE (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2009
Your Right to Request a Review by the Council
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which Angus Council has dealt with
your request for information under any of the above statutory instruments,
you have a right to ask the council to review its actions and/or decisions
regarding your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your
request to the Director - Legal & Democratic, Angus Council, Angus House,
Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar DD8 1AN or e-mail
[10][Angus Council request email] within 40 working days.
Your request must:
· be in writing (or recordable format);
· give your name and address for correspondence;
· give details of the information which you originally requested
from the council; and
· give the reasons why you are dissatisfied with the way in which
your application for information has been dealt with.
Your application for review will then be considered by the council’s
review panel. The review panel will write to you informing you of its
decision not later than 20 working days after receipt of your request for
a review. The review panel will also provide you with a statement of its
reasons for arriving at the decision it has made.
Your Right to Appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner
If you are dissatisfied with a decision of the council's review panel (or
where the review panel has not provided you with a response), you have the
right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision as
to whether your request for information has been dealt with by the council
in accordance with the above statutory instruments.
Your application to the Scottish Information Commissioner must:
o be in a recordable format (letter, e-mail, audio tape etc);
o give your name and address for correspondence.
o give details of the request for information which you originally
requested from the council;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the council’s response
to your original request;
o give details of why you were dissatisfied with the decision of the
council's review panel.
In the case of an EIR or FOI request your application to the Scottish
Information Commissioner must be made within 6 months of receipt of the
decision of the council’s review panel (or within 6 months of the date
that the review panel should have responded). No such time limit applies
under the 2009 Regulations.
Appeals to the Commissioner can be lodged online through the following
hyperlink:
[11]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...
or by contacting:
Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St
Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS; Telephone - 01334 464610; Fax - 01334 464611;
Email - [12][email address])
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