FOI request (FOIR-569365139)

Housing disrepair claims

Requested Thu 14 December 2023
Responded Thu 21 December 2023

I am writing to request the following, under the FOI Act.

1. The number of live housing disrepair claims lodged with your council as of 01/12/2023.

2. The number of housing disrepair claims made against your council for each of the financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.

3. The number of housing disrepair claims settled for each of the financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.

4. The average cost (£) of each disrepair claim settlement for each of the financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.

5. Your council's total annual spend on external legal costs relating to disrepair claims (£) (by external costs I am referring to barristers and solicitors engaged outside the council's own salaried legal staff) for each of the financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.

6. Your council's total annual spend on compensation for housing disrepair claims (£) for each of the financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.

Please supply the information in spreadsheet format (excel) if possible.

Response

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.

Hastings Borough Council sold its housing stock as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) in 1996 and therefore does not provide traditional council housing.