Social Housing

Dear Ms Wojeick

Oxford City Council – Reference: 10999

Thank you for your email.

Your request was received on 02/04/2022 and you will be sent a response within 20 working days (of receipt) in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000/ Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), subject to the information not being exempt or containing reference to a third party.

Due to an unprecedented volume of Freedom of Information Requests currently, it is likely that some requests may go beyond the 20 working days, we are working as hard as possible to respond in a timely manner, but we feel it is better to keep requestors informed in advance.

Yours sincerely

Sal Bartlett | Information Governance Administrator| Law & Governance | SA1.2B | Oxford City Council | St Aldates Chambers | St Aldates | Oxford | OX1 1DS |
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Dear Ms Wojeick

Oxford City Council – Reference: 10999

Further to the acknowledgement below, I can respond to your Freedom of
Information Act 2000 request received on 2^nd April 2022 as follows:

1.     How many domestic properties do the Council control. Please
distinguish between council owned and those owned by registered providers.
Please provide names of registered providers and number of properties, if
valid.

The Council has 7763 rental properties in its Housing Revenue Account. In
addition to that there are 26 shared ownership properties. The Council
also has 46 General Fund properties used as homeless temporary
accommodation. The Council’s housing company Oxford City Housing Ltd owns
128 properties.

2.     Please provide a breakdown of all above properties i.e, Number of
1, 2, 3, 4, etc bedroom flats Number of 1, 2, 3, 4, etc bedroom houses.

Oxford City Council - Housing
Revenue Account - rental
properties
Number of bedrooms  
0 1 2 3 4 5+ Sum:
Flat / 170 1480 1751 156 5 0 3562
Maisonette
House / 271 830 2803 254 43 4201
Bungalow 0
Sum: 170 1751 2581 2959 259 43 7763
Oxford City Council
- General fund
Number of bedrooms  
0 1 2 3 4 5+ Sum:
Flat / 0 8 21 2 0 0 31
Maisonette
House / 0 0 11 4 0 0 15
Bungalow
Sum: 0 8 32 6 0 0 46
Oxford City
Housing Ltd
Number of bedrooms  
0 1 2 3 4 5+ Sum:
Flat / 0 13 66 0 0 0 79
Maisonette
House / 0 0 2 39 8 0 49
Bungalow
Sum: 0 13 68 39 8 0 128

3.     How many of the properties in each of the above categories are
currently void/empty

Council owned permanent accommodation.

┌─────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│Bedroom no │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │
├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│House/bungalow │ 6 │ 13 │ 38 │ 1 │ 2 │
├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│Flat/maisonette │ 51 │ 61 │ 6 │ 0 │ 0 │
└─────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

4.     What contractors do you use to maintain properties?

Our main contractor for housing maintenance is Oxford Direct Services
Limited, however we do contract out some specialist services e.g. fire
alarm maintenance, legionella control etc. for these we use Pyrotec (Fire
safety), Cotswold Lifts (lifts) and SMS Environmental (Legionella
control), Asbestos Consultants Europe (ACE) currently carry out our
asbestos surveys.

5.     How many fire, electrical, asbestos, and water checks currently
need attention?

All properties are checked and regularly maintained by the mentioned
contractors.

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Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Sal Bartlett | Information Governance Administrator| Law & Governance |
SA1.2B | Oxford City Council | St Aldates Chambers | St Aldates | Oxford |
OX1 1DS | For any Data Protection queries please send the email directly
to the [2][email address] mailbox

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Dear Ms Wojeick

Oxford City Council – Reference: 10999

Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your
request for a review of the above response. This is now attached along
with supporting information.

Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Team | Law and Governance | Oxford City Council |
Town Hall | St Aldate’s | Oxford | OX1 1BX 

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Dear Oxford City Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's
handling of my FOI request 'Social Housing'.

Thank you for your response.

The information in the manner you have presented is very difficult to
understand. Can you please provide the data in a spreadsheet format with
the column and rows clearly labelled.

5. How many fire, electrical, asbestos, and water checks currently need
attention?

All properties are checked and regularly maintained by the mentioned
contractors.

This is a very vague response. Please provide details of properties
currently requiring attention.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this
address: [4]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours faithfully,

Isabelle Wojeick

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