FI14966
Request
- How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please provide a breakdown of which local authority areas they were placed. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
- How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24 where incentive payments were paid upfront to private landlords to accept them. Please advise the total spending (if any) in this respect.
- How many homeless households you placed in accommodation inside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
- How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively.
- How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively - were for properties that the Council had placed tenants in.
Response
1 As follows
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B&B Hotels
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Privately Managed Self Contained
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Privately managed shared facilities
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Ashford
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7
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6
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Canterbury
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1
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2
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Dartford
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4
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2
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4
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Folkestone & Hythe
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32
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25
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Gravesham
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2
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Maidstone
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17
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Medway
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1
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Swale
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4
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Thanet
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1
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4
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2
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2 Zero
3 B&B Hotels - 170. Privately Manged Self Contained - 252, Privately Manged Shared Facilities - 45, Council Housing Stock - 225, With an RP - 2
4 186 but this would include housing association properties as well, as we do not categorise complaints by landlord type. Every complaint has been inspected, possibly more than once.
5 The Council does not record complaints of this nature by landlord type nor whether these are properties that the Council has placed tenants in. The Council may hold the landlord type but as it is not readily available and would require an individual search of every complaint, we have estimated that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for Local Government it is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2½ working days in determining whether the information is held, locating, retrieving and extracting the data. I regret therefore, that on this occasion I must refuse this part of your request in accordance with Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act.