FI16446
Request
1) A list of all land and property sold by the local authority between 1 January 2020 and 31 October 2025.
For each sold asset, please include:
– The address of the land/property
– A description of the asset, including what your local authority used it for
– The sale price
– The buyer (please state the name of any company, organisation, etc. or otherwise state whether it was a private individual)
– The date of sale
2) Please provide a list of all the land and property currently owned by your local authority.
For each asset, please include:
– The address of the land/property
– A description of the asset, including what your local authority uses it for
– The date of purchase
– The purchase price
Response
I can confirm that the Council holds information falling within the description specified in your request, however it is not readily available and from our preliminary assessment, we have estimated that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for Local Government it is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2½ working days in determining whether the information is held, locating, retrieving and extracting the data. I regret therefore, that on this occasion I must refuse your request in accordance with Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act.
A list of the current corporate assets owned by the District Council can be found on our website at: https://www.dover.gov.uk/Corporate-Information/Transparency-Open-Data/PDF/Corporate-Property-List.pdf. If there is a specific property you are interested in, then the information you have requested is held by the Land Registry and you can the information from them direct.