Use of shipping containers or similar, or caravan parks for temporary, interim or emergency housing support
Dear Harborough District Council,
Please provide me with the answers to the following questions.
1 Does your local authority use converted shipping containers, or similar structures, as 'temporary', 'interim' or 'emergency' accommodation?
Please answer questions 2 to 5 if your authority does use shipping containers or similar structures as temporary accommodation:
2 (i) How many were in use in the past 12 months from April 2023?
(ii) Please provide the same figures for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, if available.
3 How many (i) individuals and (ii) families with children are currently being supported in this type of temporary accommodation?
4 What is your policy for the maximum length of time that anyone being assisted by your authority should be kept in this type of accommodation?
5 What is the longest amount of time an (i) individual or (ii) a family has been housed in this type of accommodation?
6 Please outline how many people being supported by your authority in this manner are care leavers, if that information is available.
7 Does your local authority make use of caravan parks, either private or council owned, to house individuals or families, as a form of temporary housing?
If question 7 is applicable to your authority, please answer the questions 8 to 10
8 (i) How many sites are currently being used?
(ii) How many individual units is this?
9 How many (i) individuals or (ii) family groups are currently being supported in this way?
10 Please outline how many people being supported by your authority in this manner are care leavers, if that information is available.
Yours faithfully,
Louisa JAMES
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Dear Requestor,
In response to your Freedom of Information request which was logged as
FOI24/333, I have now completed my investigations and I am able to confirm
the following which has been provided by the relevant service area:-
1 Does your local authority use converted shipping containers, or similar
structures, as 'temporary', 'interim' or 'emergency' accommodation? No.
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