Households rehoused due to flooding
Case reference FOI2026/01703
Received 28 October 2026
Published 3 November 2026
Request
Response
This request covers:
· Households living in council-owned or funded housing, housing associations and other registered social landlord properties,
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is not a stock-holding authority and does not own or manage council housing stock. Information relating to households living in properties owned by housing associations or other registered social landlords is not held by the Council.
· Households in privately rented accommodation who are entitled to council support
Council Tax Support may be awarded to households regardless of whether they own or rent their home. The Council does not record accommodation tenure in a way that enables households in privately rented accommodation to be identified. Therefore this information is not held.
Please provide:
· The number of households that your council has a duty to rehouse due to flooding, in temporary or alternative accommodation, for each calendar year from 2021 to the present. Under the Housing Act 1996, councils have a duty to provide emergency accommodation if individuals are rendered homeless or threatened with homelessness as a result of an emergency such as flood.
0 households
· The total cost of rehousing these households from 2021 to the present day, including temporary accommodation and any related costs recorded by the council.
£0
· If available, please provide the number of days of the longest stay by a household in temporary/alternative accommodation.
No households were rehoused due to flooding during the period requested and therefore there is no longest stay relating to flooding cases. For information only, the longest current stay by any household in temporary accommodation is 1,556 days as at 30 October 2026.
Please separate this data by household type, if possible and you hold the information in this way.
No households were rehoused due to flooding during the period requested and therefore no household type breakdown is available.
"Flooding" means flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water, groundwater or sewers. Where your records allow, please exclude internal escapes of water such as burst pipes or leaks. If flooding cannot be separated from other causes, please say so, and provide the grouped figures along with an understanding of what other causes the figure includes if that is the only data held.
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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.