MEES Compliance
Case reference FOI2023/00515
Published 26 January 2024
Request
For the years 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023, and for the period from 1 April 2023 until the date the response to this FOI request is given, provide the following information: • The number of rental properties in breach of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES). • The number of landlords issued with penalties for being in breach of MEES. • What form each of those penalties took and, if financial, how much each penalty was. • The number of instances of false or misleading information registered on the PRS Exemptions Register. • The number of landlords issued with penalties for registering false or misleading information on the PRS Exemptions Register. • What form each of those penalties took and, if financial, how much each penalty was. • Where the council's publication penalties were made publicly available. • The number of rental properties in breach of MEES that stopped being rented out due to non-compliance. • The number of rental properties that went from being in breach of MEES to being compliant due to council MEES enforcement.
Response
For the years 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023, and for the period from 1 April 2023 until the date the response to this FOI request is given, provide the following information:
• The number of rental properties in breach of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES).
Please see the following data - where a property is recorded to have provided a compliant EPC,then it will have been in breach, however no further enforcement action taken.
1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021- 4 investigations / 4 properties compliant EPC provided.
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 - 1 investigation / 1 property compliant EPC provided.
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 -8 investigations / 4 properties compliant EPC provided / 3 out of
scope of regulation / 1 property on exemption register.
For the period from 1 April 2023 -0 investigations / 0 breaches
• The number of landlords issued with penalties for being in breach of MEES.
0 for all years.
• What form each of those penalties took and, if financial, how much each penalty was.
N/A.
• The number of instances of false or misleading information registered on the PRS Exemptions
Register.
Information on exemption register not investigated.
• The number of landlords issued with penalties for registering false or misleading information on
the PRS Exemptions Register.
N/A.
• What form each of those penalties took and, if financial, how much each penalty was.
N/A.
• Where the council's publication penalties were made publicly available.
N/A. However if made public, it would be here:
https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20104/private_housing/378/private_rented_housing_enforcement/5
• The number of rental properties in breach of MEES that stopped being rented out due to noncompliance.
N/A.
• The number of rental properties that went from being in breach of MEES to being compliant due to council MEES enforcement.
N/A.
Documents
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