- Title or Description
- Property Maintenance
- FOI Number
- 2024478
- Date Received
- 01/05/2024
- Type of Request
- EIR
- Request or Question
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Please split each of the below questions into social housing and non-residential buildings. 1. Please provide your spend on the following survey types and the number of properties to which this corresponds for the last full available year (if no spend is available, please detail whether you do not carry out these surveys or that they were performed in-house):
a. Fire risk assessments
b. Compartmentation surveys
c. Fire door surveys
d. Fire risk appraisal of external walls (FRAEW) and/or EWS1 form
e. EPC (energy performance certificate) assessment
f. DEC (display energy certificate) assessment
g. Stock condition surveys
h. Damp and mould surveys
2. For each of the survey types, please state the proportion that were outsourced.
3. For each of the survey types, please confirm how often the surveys are carried out. For example: a. Complete stock yearly / two yearly / etc. b. Sample stock (xx%) yearly / two yearly / etc. c. Rolling basis (xx% p.a.) d. Reactive / ad hoc basis - Response
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Non-residential buildings Spend # Properties % outsourced Survey frequency Spend # Properties % outsourced Survey frequency
Fire risk assessments n/a Circa 700 In house Annual
Compartmentation surveys n/a n/a n/a n/a
Fire door surveys n/a Circa 700 In house Weekly/ Monthly
FRAEW / EWS1 n/a n/a n/a n/a
EPC assessment 7,750 excl. VAT 24 100% Reactive or when they run out
DEC assessment n/a n/a n/a n/a
Stock condition surveys n/a Circa 700 In house Rolling basis, 20% p.a.
Damp and Mould surveys 0 variable Mix of in house and outsourced Reactive
Please note Scottish Borders Council is a post stock transfer authority and as such does not operate any social housing within the authority area. For those noted as n/a above confirms we do not carry these out as an authority. In relation to the DEC assessments, as this is not a legal requirement in Scotland we do not display or undertake these assessments at this time.
