FOI request (FOIR-395819857)

Non-decent housing

Requested Tue 25 January 2022
Responded Tue 01 March 2022

For the following questions, please provide data that was correct as of 31 March 2021. If this is not possible however please provide the most recent available data and specify the date of extraction (ie what date the data is correct as of). I would like to know:

1. How many council-owned dwellings failed the decent home criteria by virtue of suffering from a  category 1 hazard of ‘excess cold’? Please only include Class 1 hazard dwellings, and not those that fail because they do not have a reasonable degree of thermal comfort. 

2. Of the council-owned dwellings with a class 1 excess cold hazard, how many are occupied?

3. Of the council-owned homes with a class 1 excess cold hazard which are occupied, how many have not had work to address the cold hazard because the tenant refused to allow the work to be carried out?

For the next question, I would like your most up to date snapshot. Please tell me:

4. How many council-owned dwellings fail the decent homes standard by virtue of a) category 1 excess  cold and b) not having a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.

Please provide figures for a) and b) separately and specify how many any dwellings fall into both categories.

Please tell me what date the data provided was extracted. 

Finally, Please provide answers to the next questions for the last five full financial years (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21), broken down by year:

5. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to remove class 1 excess cold   hazards from council owned dwellings?

6. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to make council-owned dwellings ‘without a reasonable degree of thermal comfort’ decent? Please only include the money spent on improving the thermal comfort - for instance if a home was non-decent because it both had an unreasonable degree of thermal comfort and was not in a reasonable  state of repair, please count only the money spent improving the thermal comfort.

7. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to prevent dwellings becoming non decent due to non-reasonable thermal comfort or due to having an excess cold category 1 hazard?

8. In the last five financial years how much has the council paid out in grants to a) private renters  and b) owner-occupiers to make improvements to a dwelling’s thermal comfort? Please break this data down by year, and provide separate data for renters and owner occupiers.

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