Disclosure Log
Empty properties (FOI/5923)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 02 June 2025
Dear ***** ***** Data Unit,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST FOI/5923
Thank you for your request for information relating to Freedom of Information request - Empty properties
Nottinghamshire County Council does not have responsibility for housing and therefore, we do not hold this information.
The district and borough councils and the city council will hold this information. You may have contacted these councils already in connection with your request, but if not, their contact details are below:
Ashfield District Council: Bassetlaw District Council: Broxtowe Borough Council: Gedling Borough Council: Mansfield District Council: Newark & Sherwood District: Rushcliffe Borough Council: Nottingham City Council: I hope this is helpful.
Yours sincerely
Kush Sharma
Complaints and Information Team
Chief Executives Department
Nottinghamshire County Council
The Council is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring all personal information is kept confidential and safe. For more details see our general and service specific privacy notices at: Dear *****
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00005923
Thank you for your email of 5 June 2025 where you requested an internal review of our response to the following request you made on 2 June 2025:
1) What"s the current number of empty properties and long term empty properties across the council, as of June 2 If a figure is not available for June 2, please provide the most up-to-date figure available and state the date for which that figure is accurate. How many of those are owned by the council What were the numbers as of 2 June 2019, in terms again of empty properties, long term empty properties, and council-owned empty/long term empty properties
2) How many people were on the social housing waiting lists on those two dates
3) What"s the reason that the long term empty properties are currently void Please provide a breakdown by void status – i.e. classifying them as available (Undergoing works, Ready for Occupation, TA: Ready for letting, Long cycle void group, Major Works, Minor repairs), temporarily unavailable (Unauthorised Occupant, Squatted, Capital void, Redevelopment), and permanently unavailable (Demolition, Disposal) or a similar classification method that you use.
4) Since 2019, have you undertaken any work around reducing your long term empty properties If you have, was this done using internal resources, third party resources, or both
5) How many properties were brought back into use as a result in each of those years since 2019 What were the average financial costs per property, in order for them to be brought back into use
6) What work is the council currently undertaking and what is it planning to undertake when it comes to reducing its long term empty properties
7) Does the council offer financial support, in terms of grants or loans, to Long Term Empty property owners to help them bring properties back into use If yes, how many owners have made use of that in every year since 2019
8) What"s the budget, if any, that the council has allocated for supporting the reduction of empty properties
Please provide such data electronically, ideally as an Excel spreadsheet.
Nottinghamshire County Council has now conducted a review and the decision is upheld that Nottinghamshire County Council does not hold the information you have requested. Nottinghamshire County Council is an upper tier local authority with no responsibility for housing and empty properties. In the Nottinghamshire County Council area responsibility for housing and empty properties falls to the lower tier district and borough councils. Here is a full list of the councils and their contact details for you to submit your request to them directly:
I have also included links to the information on their websites in relation to empty properties:
Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests. For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.
Yours sincerely
Colin Sawers (He/Him)
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
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