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Question

1. Please identify the specific statutory provision or regulation that requires this council to meet a housing need target that includes applicants who have not lived or worked in the area for 5+ years. 2. Please provide the full text of any legislation, statutory instrument, or ministerial direction that permits the council to disregard local connection when prioritising housing allocation. 3. Please confirm whether the council holds any recorded, independent evidence-based studies (excluding national statistics, local population figures, or general demographic data) that demonstrate a locally specific shortage of housing in this authority’s area over the last 10 years. If such studies exist, please provide copies in full. If no such locally commissioned or held studies exist, please confirm this explicitly. 4. Please provide any Equality Act 2010 or Human Rights Act 1998 impact assessment that has been undertaken regarding the allocation of housing to non-local applicants. 5. Please provide a list of all external bodies, organisations, companies, panels, consultants, stakeholder groups, advisory boards, or networks (whether formally contracted or informally engaged) that have provided advice, lobbying, data, or policy material on housing allocation or housing targets since 2015. Please provide copies of all correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, or other recorded material supplied by these bodies. Refugee & Resettlement Allocations 6. Please provide the total number of individuals and households allocated housing in this authority under any refugee resettlement, asylum dispersal, or humanitarian protection scheme since 2015, broken down by year and scheme name. 7. Please identify the source of funding for each scheme listed in Q6. 8. Please provide copies of any agreements, contracts, memoranda of understanding, or other recorded arrangements between the council and private developers, housing associations, or investors for the provision or leasing of properties under the schemes listed in Q6. 9. If no such agreements or records exist, please confirm this explicitly. Empty Properties & Reuse Strategies 10. Please provide the total number of residential properties recorded as empty within the council’s area for each of the past 10 years, broken down by classification (e.g., short-term vacant, long-term vacant, second homes, uninhabitable, etc.). 11. Please provide any recorded strategies, action plans, or programmes held by the council to bring empty homes back into use, together with the data or evidence used in each year to determine the local housing need those strategies were intended to address. 12. If no such strategies, programmes, or supporting data exist, please confirm this explicitly.

Answer

1. Please identify the specific statutory provision or regulation that requires this council to meet a housing need target that includes applicants who have not lived or worked in the area for 5+ years. The Housing Wales Act 2014 and the Code of Guidance for LAs on the Allocation of Accommodation and Homelessness March 2016. 2. Please provide the full text of any legislation, statutory instrument, or ministerial direction that permits the council to disregard local connection when prioritising housing allocation. The Housing Wales Act 2014. 3. Please confirm whether the council holds any recorded, independent evidence-based studies (excluding national statistics, local population figures, or general demographic data) that demonstrate a locally specific shortage of housing in this authority’s area over the last 10 years. No 4. Please provide any Equality Act 2010 or Human Rights Act 1998 impact assessment that has been undertaken regarding the allocation of housing to non-local applicants. N/A 5. Please provide a list of all external bodies, organisations, companies, panels, consultants, stakeholder groups, advisory boards, or networks (whether formally contracted or informally engaged) that have provided advice, lobbying, data, or policy material on housing allocation or housing targets since 2015. Housing allocation policy development and commissioned by WG. We do not hold this information you will need to contact Welsh Government directly using Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales. Please provide copies of all correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, or other recorded material supplied by these bodies. NA. Refugee & Resettlement Allocations 6. Please provide the total number of individuals and households allocated housing in this authority under any refugee resettlement, asylum dispersal, or humanitarian protection scheme since 2015, broken down by year and scheme name. Homes for Ukraine 2022 9 Individuals, 3 Households 2023 19 Individuals, 7 Households 2024 26 Individuals, 10 Households 2025 24 Individuals, 9 Households Afghan Resettlement Schemes 2021 3 Individuals, 1 Household 2022 6 Individuals, 2 Households 2023 6 Individuals, 2 Households 2024 6 Individuals, 2 Households Syrian Resettlement Scheme 2015 6 Individuals, 2 Households 2016 6 Individuals, 2 Households 7. Please identify the source of funding for each scheme listed in Q6. Homes for Ukraine – UK Government, Welsh Government Afghan Resettlement Schemes – UK Government Syrian Resettlement Scheme – UK Government 8. Please provide copies of any agreements, contracts, memoranda of understanding, or other recorded arrangements between the council and private developers, housing associations, or investors for the provision or leasing of properties under the schemes listed in Q6. N/A 9. If no such agreements or records exist, please confirm this explicitly. N/A 10. Please provide the total number of residential properties recorded as empty within the council’s area for each of the past 10 years, broken down by classification (e.g., short-term vacant, long-term vacant, second homes, uninhabitable, etc.). Please see the attached document titled FOI 11632 – Q10 11. Please provide any recorded strategies, action plans, or programmes held by the council to bring empty homes back into use, together with the data or evidence used in each year to determine the local housing need those strategies were intended to address. Please see the attached document titled FOI 11632 – Q11 12. If no such strategies, programmes, or supporting data exist, please confirm this explicitly. N/A