- Of those who agree with Objective 3 the most frequent reason given by far is that working together and good communication are more effective and efficient at bringing empty properties back into use (40%)
- Of those who disagree, 18% of respondents feel that it is nothing to do with the Council and that the property owner themselves gets to decide what they do or don’t do with their property. 10% comment that the Council is not known for their joined-up working practices and will struggle to deliver such an objective
Objective 3: Reasons for agreement or disagreement
Summary
Why do you agree with objective 3?
Base: All those who agree or strongly agree with objective 3 (481)
| wdt_ID | Key themes | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Working together and good communication is more effective and efficient | 40 |
| 3 | Right thing to do/sounds sensible/obvious suggestion | 8 |
| 12 | Reduce homelessness and the housing waiting list | 5 |
| 13 | Look at different ways to generate more housing stock or reduce periods of properties being empty e.g. work with commercial sites, streamline the planning process, hold the MOD to account, standardised rental procedure, guaranteed rental payments | 4 |
| 14 | Council should be doing this already | 2 |
| 15 | Not sure what this means or how it would help | 2 |
| 16 | Doubt that the council will succeed in doing this | 1 |
| 17 | Compulsory purchase orders should be made | 1 |
| 18 | Other e.g. important to work with external partners, protect listed buildings, Portsmouth very densely populated, one point of contact still needs to take responsibility, easy to report an empty property and some kind of centralised record | 5 |
| 19 | Na/no comment | 36 |
Why do you disagree with objective 3?
Base: All those who disagree or strongly disagree with objective 3 (50)
| wdt_ID | Key themes | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Property owner's choice/nothing to do with the council | 18 |
| 3 | Council not good at joined up working | 10 |
| 12 | Better empty than undesirable tenants e.g. HMOs, immigrants | 8 |
| 13 | More important things for the council to be focusing on | 6 |
| 14 | Wording too vague e.g. which external partners and what are their priorities | 6 |
| 15 | GDPR issues/one department should deal with it/information should not be shared between departments | 4 |
| 16 | Don't trust external partners/in it for the money | 4 |
| 17 | Other e.g. waste of taxpayers money, money-making for the council, lack of trust, council should use their own property portfolio first, less immigration, will lead to too many opinions | 16 |
| 18 | Na/no comment | 36 |
