Thank you for your request under the Environmental Information Regulations.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.
Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 - Do the fire brigade, have any data on the number of hoarded or properties of self – neglect in the City, and if yes, can you forward?
We have searched our Incident Reporting System (IRS) for the previous four years; Hoarding is not a category of information that attending crews are requested to note on the IRS.
They are however asked to note any issues that are not captured in the generic fields and to input any information about risk/safeguarding concerns in the free text option.
The data below reflects concerns that crews have noted at incidents.
This information would be referred to our Safeguarding Team to assess and provide support to the residents concerned.
Year Number of Incidents
2020 0
2021 1
2022 4
2023 to date 4
Additionally, our Safeguarding Team hold information concerning properties that have been noted to have hoarding concerns.
In the Colchester area, there are currently 156 properties that are recorded as being hoarded properties.
I hope that you find this information useful.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essexfire.gov.uk) .
Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on our website http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/.
All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.
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Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to apply for an internal review.
Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of your original email and should be sent to informationgovernance@essex-fire.gov.uk or sent to our postal address: Internal Review, System & Data Information Governance Team, Kelvedon Park, Rivenhall, Witham, Essex CM8 3HB.
Please ensure you quote the above reference number in all future communications