FOI release

Out-of-borough temporary accommodation

Case reference FOI2025/00851

Received 11 September 2025

Published 15 September 2025

Request

I am requesting some information under the Freedom of Information Act, pertaining to homeless households in out-of-borough temporary accommodation. This FOI is similar to a previous one I filed last month, but I have refined it based on feedback. If you have not yet responded to the previous one, please close that request and do this one instead. At the bottom of this email I have included an example table for how to provide the data, though another format is acceptable if needed. If you cannot provide all the data, please provide the parts you can, and clearly mark the parts you cannot provide. If you have advice on how I could refine my request, that would be appreciated. Please provide this data for three (3) periods of time: Jan 2023-Dec 2023; Jan 2024-Dec 2024; and Jan 2025-June 2025. 1. The number of homeless households placed by your council in out-of-borough temporary accommodation during the time period, and of these the number of households with children - broken down by borough/district placed in 2. The number of households that your council received Section 208 notices from other councils during that time period, and of these the number of households with children - broken down by borough/district received from. Here is an example table, for how I would prefer the data to be provided, but other formats are acceptable. Jan 2025-June 2025 Jan 2025-June 2025 Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 Households placed out of borough Total households Households with children (under 18) Total households Households with children (under 18) Total households Households with children (under 18) Total new out of borough placements made during time period Total out of borough placements in [X council] Total out of borough placements in [X council] Jan 2025-June 2025 Jan 2025-June 2025 Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 Section 208 notices received Total households Households with children (under 18) Total households Households with children (under 18) Total households Households with children (under 18) Total Section 208 notices received during time period Section 208 notices received from [X council] Section 208 notices received from [X council]

Response

 

Jan 2025-June 2025

Jan 2025-June 2025

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Households placed out of borough

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total new out of borough placements made during time period

34

7

83

20

133

62

Total out of borough placements in Sevenoaks

7

4

25

7

22

6

Total out of borough placements in Eastbourne

14

1

13

1

24

11

Total out of borough placements in Medway

5

1

14

7

18

7

Total out of borough placements in Swale

1

1

0

0

7

4

Total out of borough placements in Hastings

2

0

1

0

0

0

Total out of borough placements in Maidstone

4

0

22

4

25

14

Total out of borough placements in Dover

0

0

1

1

3

2

Total out of borough placements in Ashford

0

0

1

0

10

6

Total out of borough placements in Bexley

0

0

1

0

0

0

Total out of borough placements in Dartford

0

0

0

0

3

2

Total out of borough placements in Gravesham

0

0

0

0

1

1

Total out of borough placements in Mid Sussex

0

0

0

0

2

2

Total out of borough placements in Tonbridge & Malling

0

0

0

0

13

6

Total out of borough placements in Folkstone & Hythe

0

0

0

0

0

2

Total out of borough placements in Lewes

0

0

0

0

0

1

Total out of borough placements in Reigate * Banstead

0

0

0

0

1

0

Jan 2025-June 2025

Jan 2025-June 2025

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Section 208 notices received

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total households

Households with children (under 18)

Total Section 208 notices received during time period

10

4

34

18

29

25

Section 208 notices received from Tonbridge & Malling

9

3

29

15

25

20

Section 208 notices received from Sevenoaks

1

1

1

1

4

4

Section 208 notices received from Rother

0

0

0

0

0

1

Section 208 notices received from Lewis & Eastbourne

0

0

2

2

Section 208 notices received from Thanet

0

0

1

0

Section 208 notices received from London Borough of Greenwich

0

0

1

0

 

Documents

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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.