Planning & housing enforcement

24 May 2022

Your request & our response

1.        How many private sector rented housing enforcement officers, or equivalent, have you had in each of the last 5 years?

 8 x Enforcement Officers between 2017/2018

 8 x Enforcement Officers between 2018/2019

 8 x Enforcement Officers between 2019/2020

 8 x Enforcement Officers between 2020/2021

 11 x Enforcement Officers between 2021/2022

2.        How many public sector rented housing enforcement officers, or equivalent, have you had in each of the last 5 years?

Please reference Q4B

3.        How many planning enforcement officers have you had in each of the last 5 years?

6

4.        What has the budget of your public and private sector housing enforcement teams been in each of the last 5 years?

Private sector:

Year                                         Net budget

Answer:      2017/18                 £338k

                    2018/19                 £674k

                    2019/20                 £668k

                    2020/21                 £727k

                    2021/22                 £117k

Public sector:

Year                                      Net budget

Answer:      2017/18                 £466,301 1 manager, 8 officers

                    2018/19                 £482,391 1 manager, 8 officers, 1 assistant 

                    2019/20               £569,922 1 manager, 1 Senior, 8 officers, 2 assistants 

                    2020/21                 £569,922 

                    2021/22                 £621,453 1 manager, 2 seniors, 8 officers, 2 assistants 

5.        What has the budget of your planning enforcement teams been in each of the last 5 years?

There is no specific budget for enforcement teams as the budget encompasses various other services. Please advise should you wish to receive the overall budget and a new request will be logged.

6.        Do you have any private rented sector housing intelligence officers, and if so how many?

No

7.        If applicable, what is the budget of the PRS housing intelligence team?

This information is not held by the Council - please contact PRS housing for this information