Updated stats on affordable homes
Dear Orkney Islands Council,
For the below request please note that I have in the past made a previous request asking for similar data. However, the data I am now requesting is over a different timescale, and some of which is likely to have been updated. Apologies for the similarity of this request.
For each question, please break down the numbers by year, and by tenure type of affordable home (MMR, social rent, shared ownership, etc.).
Please provide all data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format.
1)
Please specify how many affordable homes offered by your council alone has been built during the financial years of 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19.
2)
Please specify how many were demolished, sold or were made otherwise unavailable as affordable homes during the financial years of 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19.
3)
Please outline the council’s projections for the number of affordable homes to be added to its housing stock during the financial years of 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.
4)
6. a. Please specify how affordable homes are projected to be demolished, sold or made otherwise unavailable during the financial years of 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.
5)
Please tell me how much your council has made from sales of affordable housing stock from 2014/15 until 2018/19.
Yours faithfully,
Jamie Mann
Dear Sir
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Regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone 01856 873535 Extension 2210
Dear Sir
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I refer to your email dated 21 June 2019 and received on 21 June 2019, our reference is FOI 2019-0649.
I am pleased to give the information you requested, as attached, and hope that it meets your requirements.
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George Vickers
Information Governance Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2162
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Hi Katy,
Many thanks for your response. For each question, please can you break down the numbers by year, and by tenure type of affordable home (MMR, social rent, shared ownership, etc.).
Yours sincerely,
Jamie Mann
Dear Sir
The figures for each year are on the spreadsheet, all housing is socially rented.
Kind regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone 01856 873535 Extension 2210
Hi Katy,
Please can I ask that you break down questions 2 and 4, by the reasons the affordable homes were made unavailable (by demolition, sale, etc.)
Please can you also break down Q5 by the number homes, including the tenure type of each affordable home sold (MMR, social rent, shared ownership, etc.).
Many thanks,
Jamie Mann
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Hello
Please find attached revised response as requested.
Regards
Barbara Scollay
Administrative Support Manager
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Tel: 01856 873535, Ext 2164
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