FOI Request - Private Rented Properties
Request 101003670590
For each of the 6 points listed below please provide breakdown by year – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. For 2024, please provide figures to date.
1. The number of complaints the Council received relating to conditions of properties in the Private Rented Sector.
2. The number of each of the following notices that were issued by the Council in relation to private rented homes:
a) an Improvement Notice
b) an Emergency Remedial Action Notice
c) a Prohibition Order
3. The number of prosecutions brought by the Council in relation to conditions in private rented properties.
4. The number of (a) Notices of Intent and (b) Final Notices for civil penalties issued by the Council relating to housing matters.
5. The overall number of individual landlords point 2, 3 and 4 were issued to.
6. The number of housing enforcement officers employed by the council.
7. The number of complaints relating to conditions of properties in the social housing rented sector. Could you please provide a breakdown of complaints for Housing Associations and the local authority.
Response 10-12-2024
1. The case management system for private sector housing visits does not have a code to identify whether an officer was involved with a property as a result of a complaint relating to its condition.
In the time period requested, Moray Council Environmental Health Section has had 3,323 interventions in private sector houses. To determine how many interventions were as a result of a complaint, each job would require to be looked at. This task would cost the Council in excess of £600 of staff time. In accordance with section 12 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (excessive cost), we are therefore unable to comply with this part of the request.
2. Details of Housing Orders and Notices are available on the online register and is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here: http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_86203.html
3.& 4. Nil response
5. Not applicable
6. 1.5 FTE
7. as per Question 1.