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Ruby Lott-Lavigna

Dear North East Lincolnshire Council,

I am getting in touch under the Freedom of Information Act.

An email was sent from the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Department of Education on December 5 2018 to all local authorities to “draw attention” to a “building failure” involving a property constructed with RAAC. It suggested steps that local authorities should take the following steps:

"(1) identify any properties constructed using Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and validate the potential risk appropriately
(2) consider and monitor the possible impact of reduced maintenance regimes on the condition of your property portfolio, in particular where RAAC is used."

1. a) Please disclose any action taken and/or findings made as a result of this email regarding point 1. This could include any surveys, studies or reports commissioned to identify properties constructed using RAAC and their results, including which properties were found to contain RAAC, and the potential risk that was assessed.
b) Please disclose any action taken and/or findings made as a result of this email regarding point 2. This could include any buildings in your property portfolio that you identified as having been built with RAAC that had “reduced maintenance regimes”.

2. Please disclose copies of any reports, surveys, briefings or studies concerning the presence of RAAC in your property portfolio after this email from December 5 2018.

3. If you replied to this email from the LGA, or forwarded it to another member of staff internally, please disclose the subsequent email chains.

4. Please disclose any other actions taken as a result of this email, if not included above.

Yours faithfully,
Ruby Lott-Lavigna

Freedom Of Information (NELC), North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Sir / Madam

 

I am pleased to acknowledge your request for information, which has been
allocated the reference number NELC/29871/2324.

Your request has been passed to the relevant department and you can expect
your response within the 20 working day limit. If it will take us longer
than 20 working days to respond to you, we will inform you of this and
provide you with the expected date for receiving a response.

 

Further information about how we will deal with your Freedom of
Information requests is available on our website at:

 

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Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information or
assistance quoting the reference number above.

Yours sincerely

 

North East Lincolnshire Council

 

 

 

 

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Freedom Of Information (NELC), North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Sir / Madam 

 

Thank you for your information request, reference number NELC/29871/2324.
I can confirm that North East Lincolnshire Council holds the following
information: 

 

An email was sent from the Local Government Association (LGA) and the
Department of Education on December 5 2018 to all local authorities to
“draw attention” to a “building failure” involving a property constructed
with RAAC. It suggested steps that local authorities should take the
following steps:

 

"(1) identify any properties constructed using Reinforced Autoclaved
Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and validate the potential risk appropriately

(2) consider and monitor the possible impact of reduced maintenance
regimes on the condition of your property portfolio, in particular where
RAAC is used."

Please note, these responses only apply to the Local Authority Estate
as the Council’s social housing stock was transferred through a Large
Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) to a new registered provider of housing,
Shoreline Housing Partnership Ltd (now Lincolnshire Housing Partnership)
on the 21^st March 2005. If you would like to contact the Lincolnshire
Housing Partnership you can do so by email at:
 [1][email address].

For further information about the Lincolnshire Housing Partnership please
visit their website at [2]https://www.lincolnshirehp.com/contact-us/.

 

1. a) Please disclose any action taken and/or findings made as a result of
this email regarding point 1. This could include any surveys, studies or
reports commissioned to identify properties constructed using RAAC and
their results, including which properties were found to contain RAAC, and
the potential risk that was assessed.

 

The Local Authority commissioned intrusive surveys upon its maintained
estate which fell within the construction parameters for RAAC.

 

b) Please disclose any action taken and/or findings made as a result of
this email regarding point 2. This could include any buildings in your
property portfolio that you identified as having been built with RAAC that
had “reduced maintenance regimes”.

 

The surveys showed that none of the Local Authority’s maintained estate
contained RAAC.

 

2. Please disclose copies of any reports, surveys, briefings or studies
concerning the presence of RAAC in your property portfolio after this
email from December 5 2018.

 

N/A

 

3. If you replied to this email from the LGA, or forwarded it to another
member of staff internally, please disclose the subsequent email chains.

 

N/A

 

4. Please disclose any other actions taken as a result of this email, if
not included above.

 

None

 

If you believe that your request for information has not been handled in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, you have the right to
request an internal review by the Council. If you wish to request an
internal review, please write to us detailing the reasons why. Please be
clear about which elements of the Council’s response or handling of the
request you are unhappy with, and would like the Council to address during
the internal review process.  If following this you are still dissatisfied
you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner.  

 

Yours sincerely  

 

North East Lincolnshire Council  

 

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