FOI request (FOIR-630249331)

Social Housing

Requested Fri 12 July 2024
Responded Fri 20 September 2024

I would like to make a Freedom of Information Requests to understand more about how you manage and procure home extensions for your local authority housing.

1. Who is the main contact in your local authority who manages the extensions of local authority homes?

2. Who is the head of Housing in your local area (If not the same person above)?

Please answer the following questions for Social Housing (Housing Revenue Account) as well as extensions funded via DFG (owner occupied, RSL, and so on).

3. How many single storey extensions are you predicting to build in this financial year 2024/25, what is the expected spend?

a. Social Housing Stock (HRA)

b. DFG spend

4. How many single storey extensions did you build in the previous financial year 2023/24, what was the spend?

a. Social Housing Stock (HRA)

b. DFG spend

5. What is your budget for the next financial year (2025/26) for home extensions on social housing?

6. Do you have an approved list of builders who build home extensions for your local authority housing and DFG funded extensions?

a. If so, please can you provide a list of these builders?

i. Social Housing Stock (HRA)

ii. DFG spend

b. If you manage this on a larger contract basis, who is, or are, the appointed contractors and when is the contract up for renewal?

i. Social Housing Stock (HRA)

ii. DFG spend

7. If any social housing stock is managed in your area via Housing Association(s), please can you provide details of each relevant housing association and the contact details for the person who makes the decisions about home extensions?

8. What is the size of your Housing Stock portfolio?

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

The council completed a large scale voluntary transfer of its housing stock in 1996 and subsequently only has a small portfolio of homes used for temporary accommodation.

1. We do not have plans to carry out extensions to any homes that we currently own.

2. Chris Hancock

3a. Not applicable, we do not have a Housing Revenue Account.

3b. We Currently only have one small extension planned under a DFG at an approximate cost of £41,000.

4a. Not applicable, we do not have a Housing Revenue Account.

4b. We built one extension under a DFG on a privately owned property during the last financial year art an approximate cost of £120,000.

5. Not applicable, we do not have a Housing Revenue Account.

6ai. Not applicable.

6aii. The Council does not have an approved list of builders for DFG funded extensions.

6bi. Not applicable.

6bii. Not applicable.

7. There are a number of Housing Associations who own and manage social housing in Hastings, namely Southern Housing and Orbit. We do not hold information on the contact details for the person responsible for home extensions

Information on social housing stock portfolios is recorded by the Regulator of Social Housing:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/regulator-of-social-housing

8. 0-1000 properties (42)