FOI Request 2049

Subject: Office to Residential Conversions

Status: Closed

Date received: September 2024

Question Asked:

• How many blocks of flats have you noted safety concerns with over the last ten years, in a year by year breakdown please?

• How many of these, year by year, have been converted into residential properties after having been office blocks? (Please may we have a year on year breakdown?)

• How many blocks of flats have you had to evacuate due to safety concerns over the last ten years (Please may we have a year on year breakdown?)

• How many of those evacuated over the last ten years were converted from office blocks? (In a year on year breakdown please?)

Our Response:

We asked for clarification on the following points:

1. Please can you define the term “Block of Flats”?

2. Is this two or more dwellings within a structure or is it defined by the number of floors/storeys?

Following from this, we received no response and this Freedom of Information Request was closed.

Outcome: No Response

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO