Dear Jo Staines,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 27093113

Thank you for your recent request.

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20 working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with your request at the earliest opportunity.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of the information requested where the request exceeds the statutory limit or where disbursements exceed £10. In such cases you will be informed in writing and your request will be suspended until we receive payment from you or your request is modified and/or reduced.

Your request may require either full or partial transfer to another public authority. You will be informed if your request is transferred.

If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will notify you of this together with the reason(s) why and details of how you may appeal (if appropriate).

Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further information where we believe that the request is not significantly clear for us to respond fully.

Kind regards

FOI Team
Information Security & Governance
Chief Executive’s Directorate
Lewisham Council

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Dear Jo Staines,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 27093113

Thank you for your request for information held by London Borough of Lewisham. Please find below, a copy of your request and our response.

Q1) For each temporary accommodation unit available to let/offer by the council on 15th August 2024 , please provide: a) the number of bedrooms, b) the postcode*.

Q2) For each temporary accommodation unit actually offered by the council to a homeless household on 15th August 2024 , please provide: a) the number of bedrooms, b) the postcode*, c) the locational priority of the household the accommodation was offered to [in accordance with the council's Locational Priority Policy].

Please note that we are only supplying top-level postcodes, as we do not use FOIs as a medium for disclosing personal microdata.

Q1.
SW17, 4 bedroom

Q2.
CR2, 2 bedroom
E5, 1 bedroom
SE23, 1 bedroom
E1W, 2 bedroom
SE23, 1 bedroom

And note: Applicants' location priority is assessed at the time of placement but is not currently available in an aggregate form. We are in the process of making improvements to our data systems in this area.

We hope you will find this information helpful.

You are free to use the information provided for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, requires the permission of the copyright holder. You may apply for permission to re-use this information by submitting a request to [email address]

You have a right of appeal against this response which you can exercise by writing to: [email address]

This must be requested within 40 working days of the date of this response.
If you are still dissatisfied after our internal review, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You should make complaints to the ICO within six weeks of receiving the outcome of an internal review. The easiest way to lodge a complaint is through their website: www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints.
Postal address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

FOI Team
Information Security and Governance Team
Chief Executive’s Directorate
Lewisham Council

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Dear Jo Staines

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No:- 27093113 -Appeal

Thank you for your email.

We acknowledge receipt of your appeal of our response to your information request. We will now undertake a review of our original response. We will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible and within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

FOI Appeals Manager
Information Security and Governance Team
Chief Executive’s Directorate
Lewisham Council

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Dear Jo Staines

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 27093113 - Appeal response

We have now considered your appeal of our original response to you. Your request was for information relating to Temporary accommodation available to let on 15th August 2024. In summary, we wish to uphold our original response but provide some further explanation provided by our Housing Colleagues:

The reason for the discrepancy is there is a time lag between recording new properties procured and available to let, and recording new temporary accommodation placements.

The shorter duration of many temporary accommodation placements and suppliers mean that the allocations are not done based on bids against a predefined property list in the same way as longer-term properties on the housing register are let.

As the requestor is interested in all properties that could have been let on that day, for their purposes they may combine the two lists of postcodes.

We hope you find this response to your review satisfactory, however, you have a further right of appeal against this decision, which you can do so in writing, stating your reasons to the regulating body, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). You should make complaints to the ICO within six weeks of receiving the outcome of an internal review. The easiest way to lodge a complaint is through their website: www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints. Postal address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF.
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Yours sincerely

FOI Appeals Manager
Information Security and Governance Team
Chief Executive's Directorate
Lewisham Council

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