Properties sold under Right to Buy Scheme
Case reference FOI2024/00159
Published 6 February 2024
Request
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000).
I would like to know:
1. How many leasehold properties have been sold by the local authority under the Right to Buy scheme (1980) since its inception?
2. How many of these leaseholds are currently registered at an away address (an address which is not that of the property itself)?
3. How many properties initially sold under the Right to Buy act have been subsequently purchased by the local authority?
a) How many of these were purchased on or after January 1st 2020?
b) How much money has the local authority spent on purchasing these properties? (If any properties have been sold again after being re-purchased, please also specify this income)
Response
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000).
I would like to know:
1. How many leasehold properties have been sold by the local authority under the Right to Buy scheme (1980) since its inception?
Herefordshire Council transferred the housing stock to Herefordshire Housing Ltd who are now Connexus in 2002, therefore any properties sold under the Right to Buy Scheme from that date would be held with Connexus.
The Service Area have confirmed that from 1980 until 2002 215 leasehold properties were sold under the Right to Buy Scheme.
2. How many of these leaseholds are currently registered at an away address (an address which is not that of the property itself)?
Herefordshire Council do not hold this information.
3. How many properties initially sold under the Right to Buy act have been subsequently purchased by the local authority?
0
a) How many of these were purchased on or after January 1st 2020?
N/A
b) How much money has the local authority spent on purchasing these properties? (If any properties have been sold again after being re-purchased, please also specify this income)
N/A
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