Section 60 Costs Charged To Leaseholders For Statutory Lease Extensions Under Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993)
Dear West Suffolk 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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I refer to your request for information dated 18 November 2023.
Information Requested:
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.
Response:
West Suffolk Council do not own residential stock where S60 will have been
applied. Therefore we have no data to provide.
If you are unhappy with this response you may request an internal review
of this matter via the Council’s corporate complaints procedure.
If, after an internal review, you are still unhappy with the decision, you
have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner:
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Tel: 0303 123 1113
Address: Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely,
FOI Co-ordinator
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West Suffolk Council supports our staff to work flexibly and we respect
the fact that you may also be working at different times to suit you and
your organisation's needs. Please do not action or respond to this message
outside of your own working hours.
[3]Report, pay and apply online 24 hours a day
[4]Find my nearest for information about your area
West Suffolk Council is the Data Controller of the information you are
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protected and disposed of in accordance with the General Data Protection
Regulations and Data Protection Act 2018. In some circumstances we may
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because we have a legal requirement to do so. Any information about you
that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party. For
more information on how we do this and your rights in regards to your
personal information and how to access it, visit our website: [5]How we
use your information
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