Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data Request
Dear North East Lincolnshire Council,
My name is Suraj Rajesh, and I am a second-year economics student at the University of Warwick.
I am a research assistant for a research project conducted by Professor Ludovica Gazze and Professor Thiemo Fetzer at the University of Warwick. As part of the project, I am studying the evolution of the Council's social housing stock.
I found the available data on aggregate social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales at the local authority level. However, more detailed information would greatly assist in answering my research question. Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I would like access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical level, on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021.
Ideally, the data would follow the following format:
Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and Social/Council housing stock
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (e.g. full postcode or full address)
Time unit: As granular as possible (e.g. Date)
Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and the present time.
Area Covered: As large as possible (e.g. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time)
Additional information, if possible: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .csv
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...
Thank you for your time in considering my request.
Yours faithfully,
Suraj Rajesh,
Economics student at the University of Warwick
Dear Sir / Madam
Thank you for your information request, reference NELC/27375/2223
Under section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act I can confirm that North
East Lincolnshire Council does not hold the information you have
requested.
North East Lincolnshire Council does not hold this information as our
social housing stock was transferred through a Large Scale Voluntary
Transfer (LSVT) to a new registered provider of housing, Shoreline Housing
Partnership Ltd (now Lincolnshire Housing Partnership) on the 21^st March
2005. If you would like to contact the Lincolnshire Housing Partnership
you can do so by email at: [1][email address].
For further information about the Lincolnshire Housing Partnership please
visit their website at [2]https://www.lincolnshirehp.com/contact-us/.
If you believe that your request for information has not been handled in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, you have the right to
request an internal review by the Council. If you wish to request an
internal review, please write to us detailing the reasons why. Please be
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request you are unhappy with, and would like the Council to address during
the internal review process. If following this you are still dissatisfied
you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner.
Yours sincerely
North East Lincolnshire Council
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