Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data Request
Dear Braintree District 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 Suraj Rajesh,
Thank you for your information request, received on the 18 January 2023.
Reference 6556 has been applied to your request which will be looked into
and a response provided within 20 full working days.
Should you have any queries in the meantime, please contact the Freedom of
Information Team at [1][Braintree District Council request email]
Kind regards,
Victoria Alexander
Performance & Information Officer
Braintree District Council | Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, CM7
9HB
01376 552525| [2]www.braintree.gov.uk
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1. mailto:[Braintree District Council request email]
2. http://www.braintree.gov.uk/
Dear Suraj Rajesh,
Further to your information request received by Braintree District
Council, on 18 January 2023, case reference 6556 I write to advise that
the Council holds no information in respect your request detailed below.
Requested information on: Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data
Request
Braintree District Council transferred its social housing stock to
Eastlight Community Homes (formerly Greenfields) in 2007, and no longer
holds information on right-to-buy dales data.
This information may be held by Eastlight Community Homes (ECH). To send
ECH a request for information please view their website at the following
link:
[1]https://www.eastlighthomes.co.uk/contact...
Right of internal review: If you are dissatisfied with the handling of
your request please contact us in writing, within 40 days of the receipt
of a full response, at: Emma Wisbey Governance and Member Manager,
Braintree District Council, Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex,
CM7 9HB. Or e-mail: [2][Braintree District Council request email]
Right to appeal: Should you remain dissatisfied with the outcome of any
internal review, you have a right of appeal under S50 of the Freedom of
Information Act, and under Regulation 11 of the Environmental Information
Regulation 2004. You can appeal against the internal review decision by
contacting the Information Commissioner at: Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow SK9 5AF. Or e-mail: [3][email address]
Kind regards,
Victoria Alexander
Performance & Information Officer
Braintree District Council | Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, CM7
9HB
01376 552525| www.braintree.gov.uk
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1. https://www.eastlighthomes.co.uk/contact...
2. mailto:[Braintree District Council request email]
3. mailto:[email address]
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