Residential Properties in Financial Distress (Council Tax Arrears and Possession Notices)
Received: 10 April 2025
To address your concerns about personal data while still obtaining meaningful information, I refine my original request as follows: 1.Council Tax Arrears Data: oProvide the total number of residential properties with council tax arrears exceeding £2,500 as of 1 March 2025, broken down by postcode (e.g., EN5 1, EN5 2, etc.), without individual addresses or arrears amounts. oFormat: CSV with columns: Column 1: Postcode Column 2: Number of PropertiesoIf full postcode breakdowns are deemed personal data, provide the data aggregated by postcode prefix (e.g., EN5, N11) or ward, whichever is feasible without identifying individuals.2.Mortgage Possession Notices Data: oProvide the total number of residential properties subject to mortgage possession notices or court orders referred to the council between 1 January 2024 and 1 March 2025, broken down by month and postcode (or postcode prefix/ward if full postcodes are exempt). oFormat: CSV with columns: Column 1: Postcode (or Prefix/Ward) Column 2: Month (e.g., 01/2024, 02/2024, etc.) Column 3: Number of PropertiesoExclude specific dates or addresses if they identify individuals, but retain aggregate counts.3.Fallback Option: oIf providing data by postcode or ward is still considered exempt, please provide borough-wide totals for each category (council tax arrears )£2,500 and mortgage possession notices) broken down by month from January 2024 to March 2025, as a minimum disclosure.This refined request removes any need for individual-level data (e.g., full addresses or arrears amounts) and focuses on anonymized, aggregated statistics, which should not contravene the DPA 2018 or the first data protection principle.
Outcome / Documents
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