RTB Sales
Dear Haringey Borough Council,
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide the following details of all Council homes that were sold by Haringey Borough Council and any associated departments under the Right to Buy scheme since 01/01/2011 to date.
As Right to Buy sales are not registered with the Land Registry, could you please provide:
1. month and year;
2. first part of the postcode;
3. property value;
4. sale price;
5. the amount of discount applied.
P.S. Can you please provide information in the same format as Brent Borough Council has done:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...
Yours faithfully,
Andrea Andrews
Dear Ms Andrews ,
I acknowledge your request for information received on 12 May l 2015.
This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
will send the response by 10 June 2015.
If you have any questions, please contact us on 020 8489 5611 or
[1][email address] .
Yours sincerely
Nirmla Chumber
Homes for Haringey Feedback Team | 020 8489 5611
Dear Ms Andrews
LBH/4294415
Freedom of Information Act Request
I thank you for your email dated the 12^th May.
You have requested Right to Buy sales data from the 1^st January 2011.
Since this date, there has been a number of changes to the maximum
discount which has had an effect on the sales figures. The last change to
the maximum discount came into effect on the 6^th April. This increased
the maximum discount in London to £103,900. No sales have been completed
since this date to qualify for the increased discount.
As we record the sales in our database, it adjusts the sales figures to
take account of the discount in operation at the current time. As a
result, we cannot readily access the individual sale price and discount in
operation at the date of the sale for those completions that took place
prior to the 21^st July 2014, being the date of the previous increase.
These would need to be extracted manually from the database and adjusted
to take account of the discount in operation at the date of the sale.
Section 12 of the Act allows public authorities to refuse requests for
information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the
appropriate limit, which for local government is set at £450. This
represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in
determining whether the department holds the information, locating,
retrieving and extracting the information. It would take in excess of 18
hours to manually extract the information you required and therefore,
on this basis your request under the Freedom of Information Act is
refused.
I have provided the information for the period from 21^st July 2014 until
the 12^th May 2015. In addition, I attach a further spreadsheet showing
the total number of sales between the 1^st January 2011 and the 12^th May
2015, but excluding the discount and sales price data.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on 020 8489
3060 or email at [1][email address].
If you are unhappy with how we have dealt with your request and wish to
make a complaint, please contact the Feedback and Information Governance
Team as below. (Please note you should do this within two months of
receiving this response.)
Feedback and Information Governance Team
6th Floor River Park House
225 High Road
N22 8HQ
Telephone: 020 8489 1988
Email: [2][email address]
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's office, which may
be able to help you. However they would normally expect the local
authority to have undertaken a complaint investigation or Internal Review
of the request before they will accept the referral.
You can contact the Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone help line: 0845 6306060, or 01625 545745
Fax: 01625 545510
Website: [3]www.ico.gov.uk
Best regards
Paul Cox
Lease Compliance & Home Sales Manager
Home Ownership Team
Homes for Haringey
8th Floor Alexandra House I 10 Station Road|Wood Green I N22 7TR
Tel: 020 8489 3060
Email: [4][email address]
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From: Chumber Nirmla On Behalf Of ComplaintsHFH
Sent: 14 May 2015 14:16
To: Home Ownership Team
Cc: HIT; O'Reilly Catherine
Subject: LBH/4294415 Freedom of Information request - RTB Sales
FOI / EIR request reference: LBH/4294415
Draft Response due date: 27 May 2015
Final Response due 10 June 2015
Dear all,
We have received a new FOI request which has been allocated to you to
provide a response.
The request is below. Please ensure that a response is sent to the
requestor and that a copy is sent to FeedbackHFH for our records. Please
use the response template attached.
Please alert the Feedback Team if:
The request involves personal information
You want to withold any of the information that has been requested – we
can advise on exemptions –
You think that the request should be rejected as invalid or vexatious
It would take more than 18 hours to collect the information (we can then
charge the requester)
Please ensure that you put the LBH/no and FOI in the subject line of any
email asking for advice.
Sensitive requests
Please alert your business unit head or Director / ACE to any FOI requests
that are politically sensitive with the suggestion that the Cabinet member
be informed, while respecting the privacy of the requester.
Remember: the Freedom of Information Act is about allowing people access
to the information that we have on record. We do not have to create
records or alter existing records because of FOI requests.
Yours truly,
Catherine O'Reilly
Senior Investigations Coordinator
Homes for Haringey
Feedback Team
Broadwater Farm Community Centre
Adams Road
London
N17 6HE
___________________________________________________________________________
Dear
LBH/
Freedom of Information Act Request
Thank you for your letter/email dated
The information requested is below/attached.
List the information if appropriate
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on 020 8489
XXXX or email at [7][email address]
If you are unhappy with how we have dealt with your request and wish to
make a complaint, please contact the Feedback and Information Governance
Team as below. (Please note you should do this within two months of
receiving this response.)
Feedback and Information Governance Team
6th Floor River Park House
225 High Road
N22 8HQ
Telephone: 020 8489 1988
Email: [8][email address]
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's office, which may
be able to help you. However they would normally expect the local
authority to have undertaken a complaint investigation or Internal Review
of the request before they will accept the referral.
You can contact the Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone help line: 0845 6306060, or 01625 545745
Fax: 01625 545510
Website: [9]www.ico.gov.uk
Yours sincerely,
Name
Job Title
Directorate
Nirmla Chumber
Feedback Officer
telephone: 0208 489 5611
[10][email address]
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