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Subject: House EPC ratings & MEES enforcement

Reference: WBC-FOI-00444

I would like information about your council's homes and MEES enforcements in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by a housing department or similar. In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:

a) What is the energy efficiency of the council's homes (managed or owned by the council)? Please provide either a distribution table with the number of buildings for each EPC rating or the percentage of the council's homes that have received an EPC rating of C or above.

b) What is the number of investigations, enforcement notices and enforcement actions that the council did, related to MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) in the 2021/22 financial year.

Where data is available separately for each statistic please provide separately. If only some information is available, please give me that information.

Response

Full Disclosure - 25 January 2023

Request for Information - WBC-FOI-00444 - House EPC ratings & MEES enforcement

I refer to your request for information received on 16 January 2023. Please see the information below in response to your request: -

a)What is the energy efficiency of the council's homes (managed or owned by the council)? Please provide either a distribution table with the number of buildings for each EPC rating or the percentage of the council's homes that have received an EPC rating of C or above.

63% of tenanted properties have a rating of C or above. Please see table below:

EPC bandNo of properties

A (92-100)0

B (81-91)273

C (69-80)9,966

D (55-68)5,518

E (39-54)340

F (21-38)39

G (1-20)15

TOTAL16,151

b) What is the number of investigations, enforcement notices and enforcement actions that the council did, related to MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) in the 2021/22 financial year?

0

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