- Title or Description
- Homes for Larger Families
- FOI Number
- 2024391
- Date Received
- 05/04/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
- How many families with three or more children are currently being housed in temporary accommodation, and how long each family of this size has been in temporary accommodation. How many homes owned by your council were available to accommodate families of this size in each of the last five years. How many homes the council bought from the open market to accommodate families of this size in the last five years.
- Response
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As at today s date 05.04.2024 Scottish Borders Council has five families with three or more children who are housed in temporary accommodation. Each family entered temporary accommodation on the following dates: Family 1:05.04.2024
Family 2:17.03.2023
Family 3:04.01.2024
Family 4:28.02.2024
Family 5:12.09.2023 Scottish Borders Council became a stock transfer authority in 2003 and therefore hold no housing stock, as this information is not held we give notice under Section 17 of the FOI(S)A 2002. Scottish Borders Council became a stock transfer authority in 2003 and therefore hold no housing stock, as this information is not held we give notice under Section 17 of the FOI(S)A 2002. Information relating to the housing providers in the Scottish Borders Area can be found at the following link:(link below) - Related links
- Council housing and housing associations (scotborders.gov.uk)
