This website uses cookies to give you a better experience. For more information on why we use cookies, please read our cookie policy
Accept cookies
Skip to main content
Hastings Online logo
A-Z
Home | Help | Privacy | Log in to My Hastings | Jobs Email alerts Hastings council Instagram Hastings council twitter feed Hastings council facebook page
  • My council
  • Freedom of Information
  • Requests and responses by date
  • FOI request (FOIR-146144587)

    Right to buy scheme

    Requested Thu 26 September 2019
    Responded  Wed 02 October 2019

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your council.

    My request relates to the Right to Buy scheme for council tenants to buy their homes.

    Specifically, it relates to owners extending their leasehold leases with your council as the freeholder. I am asking each council in England and Wales with a housing brief in an effort to create a national picture.

    In each case, I understand that records may be incomplete, and if this is the case, I would like whatever figures are available, together with their dates, to give the most accurate view possible.

    Here is what I am requesting:

    1. In total, how many leasehold extensions have been agreed since Right to Buy started? If records are incomplete on this, please also indicate what years of data are available.

    2. How much has been raised from these extensions in total? Again, if this is for specific years, please also say which years are covered.

    3. How many of these were 90-year extensions under the 1993 Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act? A percentage is fine.

    4. How many extensions for each of the last 10 calendar years? How much was raised in total for each year? If the information is more easily available in fiscal years, please deliver it so, but please do indicate if that's the case.

    5. For each year of the last 10 years, how many extensions were for leases with 80 years remaining or less? How much was raised from these extensions?

    6. How much was raised from the single most-expensive extension? When was this, and how many years were left on the lease before the extension? Again, if records are patchy, please indicate whether this is the most-expensive, or the most-expensive for whatever years are available, and what those years are.

    7. How much was charged to leaseholders in fees in total for these extensions?

    8. Who were the parties paid the fees and how much each? If this includes law firms, please name the top five and how much each of them received.

    9. How many extensions went to tribunal per year for the last 10 years and in total? How much was spent on tribunals by the council?

         10. In total, what percentage of Right to Buy properties were sold leasehold and what percentage freehold by the council? Again, if    records are incomplete, a percentage relating to existing records and the timeframe of those records will be fine

    Response

    Information not held

    Hastings Borough Councils holds no housing stock, this was transferred to 1066 Housing Association (now Optivo) in 1996 as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT).

  • Freedom of Information

    Contact

    Got a question about freedom of information? 

    Contact us


    Content

    The content on this page is the responsibility of our Council's Information Officer.

    Can't find what you're looking for? Try our A - Z

    Spotted an issue with this page? Tell us

A-Z of services

  • Services beginning with A
  • Services beginning with B
  • Services beginning with C
  • Services beginning with D
  • Services beginning with E
  • Services beginning with F
  • Services beginning with G
  • Services beginning with H
  • Services beginning with J
  • Services beginning with L
  • Services beginning with M
  • Services beginning with N
  • Services beginning with P
  • Services beginning with R
  • Services beginning with S
  • Services beginning with T
  • Services beginning with U
  • Services beginning with V
  • Services beginning with W
  • Hastings Museum and Art Gallery website
  • Visit 1066 Country website
  • Email alerts Hastings council Instagram Hastings council twitter feed Hastings council facebook page
  • Accessibility statement
  • Contact us
© 2003 - 2023 Hastings Borough Council.
Unless otherwise stated these pages are copyright protected.
All rights reserved.