FI15175

Request

1. Do you own your own Council housing stock?

Housing Stock Details

2. Approximately how many dwellings do you have?

  • Council dwellings
  • Leasehold dwellings

3. If known, approximately many response repairs do you undertake per year? 

4. If known, approximately gas services to you undertake per year?

5. Do you have a combined Repairs and Gas contract? (i.e. one contractor that undertakes both building repairs and gas servicing)

Repairs and Maintenance Contract Delivery

6. Who undertakes your main repairs and maintenance contract?

7. What is the contract model for the repairs and maintenance contract?

8. Who undertakes the gas contract?

9. What is the contract model for the gas contract?

10. Approximately how much is your annual budget for 2024/2025

  • Revenue Repairs and maintenance (general)
  • Revenue Gas servicing & repairs
  • Capital expenditure (repairs and maintenance and gas) 

11. Who is the main contact for your Repairs & Maintenance contract? Name, job title and email

12. Who is the main contact for the Gas Servicing & Repairs contract? Name, job title and email

13. Would you be willing to discuss your maintenance service delivery further with us?

14. Would you like to receive an anonymised copy of the results of this survey? 

If you currently have Inhouse service delivery

15. How many years have you had an inhouse repairs and/or gas service?

16. Who undertook repairs and/or gas prior to the service being inhouse?

17. What was the contract model for the repairs and/or gas contract prior to the service being inhouse

  • Schedule of rates
  • Price per property
  • Cost reimbursable

18. What was the main driver behind the service being brought inhouse?

  • Service improvement
  • Cost savings
  • Political decision
  • Resident decision
  • Other (please state)

Response

1. Yes. 

2. Council dwellings: 4800 (including shared ownership properties) and Leasehold dwellings: 450

3. 13,000

4. 4,076

5. No.

6. Mears Ltd, 1390 Montpellier Court, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, Gloucester, GL3 4AH.

7. Schedule of rates.

8. Gas Call Services Ltd, 2 Queenslie Court, Summerlee Street, Glasgow, G33 4DB

9. Schedule of rates

10. Revenue Repairs and maintenance (general): £3.0m, Revenue Gas servicing & repairs: £724k and Capital expenditure (repairs and maintenance and gas): £5.4m

11. The information you have requested is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act as the Council considers the names and contact details of individual members of staff to be personal data.  The names of staff working in public authorities are personal data as defined by Article 4(1) of GDPR and also Section 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the release of this data would contravene the data protection principles. 

12. The information you have requested is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act as the Council considers the names and contact details of individual members of staff to be personal data.  The names of staff working in public authorities are personal data as defined by Article 4(1) of GDPR and also Section 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the release of this data would contravene the data protection principles. 

13. No.

14. No. 

Questions 15-18 are not relevant as we do not have an in-house service.