Section 60 Costs Charged To Leaseholders For Statutory Lease Extensions Under Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993)
Dear Norwich City Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding Section 60 costs under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993), specifically those costs that have been passed on to leaseholders who have extended their leases where the council was the Competent Landlord.
To facilitate an analysis on the costs that leaseholders are liable when they extend their leases I would appreciate if you could provide the following data in a csv file with the following columns:
1. Date of completion – YYYY/MM/DD
2. Premium Paid – Integer
3. Section 60 costs – Integer
This data should be provided for the most recent 100 lease extensions that have completed where the council was the Competent Landlord. If this is not deliverable in a single request could you return data for the largest number of requests possible. If you cannot provide all of the above within the scope mentioned above, please provide what available information you have and an explanation for why you cannot provide the data.
I understand that under the Act, I should be entitled to a response within 20 working days of your receipt of this request. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.
Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated, as it will contribute to a better understanding of the financial implications facing leaseholders when extending their leases under LRHUDA 1993.
Yours faithfully,
Josef Wasinski
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Dear Josef Wasinski,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Request
I am requesting information regarding Section 60 costs under the Leasehold
Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993), specifically
those costs that have been passed on to leaseholders who have extended
their leases where the council was the Competent Landlord.
To facilitate an analysis on the costs that leaseholders are liable when
they extend their leases I would appreciate if you could provide the
following data in a csv file with the following columns:
1. Date of completion – YYYY/MM/DD
2. Premium Paid – Integer
3. Section 60 costs – Integer
This data should be provided for the most recent 100 lease extensions that
have completed where the council was the Competent Landlord. If this is
not deliverable in a single request could you return data for the largest
number of requests possible. If you cannot provide all of the above within
the scope mentioned above, please provide what available information you
have and an explanation for why you cannot provide the data.
Response
Please see attached spreadsheet which contains information from February
2011 until present day.
Norwich City Council is withholding information prior to February 2011
under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Information prior
to this date, if any is held, would be stored within historic legal files
and not in an easily reportable format. Therefore to provide this
information would require a manual search that it is estimated would
exceed 18 hours.
Please quote the reference number PN9588490 in any future
communications relating to this request.
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Information Governance Manager
Norwich City Council
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I will now close your request as of this date.
Yours faithfully
The Information Governance Team
Norwich City Council
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intended recipient. Norwich City Council reserves the right to monitor all
e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this
message are those of the individual sender, except where the message
states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the
views of any such entity.
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Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016 and the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 the contents may have to be disclosed in response to a request.
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