Section 60 Costs Charged To Leaseholders For Statutory Lease Extensions Under Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993)
Dear South Oxfordshire District 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
Dear Josef Wasinski
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was received by South Oxfordshire District Council on 18 November 2023.
South Oxfordshire District Council is a LSVT Authority (Large Scale Voluntary Transfer Authority). The housing stock was transferred to SOHA in July 1997. However, I have forwarded your request to our properties team in case the legislation applies to any properties we own.
Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.
The deadline for this will be 18 December 2023
The reference number for this request is South 23/903
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Dear Josef Wasinski
Thank you for your Freedom of Information requests, which were received by
both South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council, logged under FOI 23/903 South and 23/748 Vale. Please note that
the two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint response.
Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) you
are entitled to be informed in writing whether the council holds the
information specified in your request and, if that is the case, to have
that information communicated to you unless any of the statutory
exemptions apply. I have considered your request and can confirm we do
hold some of the information asked and I do not believe any of the
statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please find below the
information you requested (where available):
You requested:
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.
Our response:
The data has been provided in a CSV file as requested.
A summary of the data is below:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Vale of White Horse District Council │
├────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┤
│ Date of completion │ Premium Paid │ Section 60 costs │
│ YYYY/MM/DD │ Integer │ Integer │
├────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 2012/02/23 │ 10,250 │ 1,800 │
├────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┤
│ South Oxfordshire District Council │
├────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┤
│ Date of completion │ Premium Paid │ Section 60 costs │
│ YYYY/MM/DD │ Integer │ Integer │
├────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Nil Return │ Nil Return │ Nil Return │
└────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response under the 2000 Act. If
you are not satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your
request, you can make a request for an internal review by emailing
[1][South Oxfordshire District Council request email] and [2][email address] within 40 working
days from the date we issued our response. If you remain dissatisfied
after following that procedure, you have the right under Section 50 of the
2000 Act to complain to the Information Commissioner if you feel the
council has not dealt with your request properly. You can contact the
Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
(telephone number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information
at [3]www.ico.org.uk.
Kind regards,
Strategic Property Team
Development and Corporate Landlord
Property Helpdesk 01235 422660
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
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