FOI - Supported Accommodation [Jan 2026]

1. Any impact assessments, reviews, or evaluations conducted by the GLA on the siting or community impact of homelessness hostels in residential areas of Lewisham since 2019.
2. Any correspondence between the GLA or the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Lewisham Council relating to the operation or location of [Named location].
3. Any current or planned reviews of hostel density, community safety, or placement strategy for supported accommodation in South-East London

Our response 

I can confirm that the GLA holds an incident review report dated January – July 2025.

The GLA commissions a ‘hub’ and a 26 bed ‘staging post’ in Lewisham and these form part of a service called No Second Night Out (NSNO), which is delivered by St Mungo’s and has multiple sites across London. There are also Lewisham Local Authority commissioned services at the same site. The document, written by St Mungo’s, relates to anti-social behaviour incidents involving residents of Lewisham Local Authority commissioned services and NSNO at this site.

Please find attached a copy of this report. Please note that some of the content is exempt from disclosure under Section 31(1)(a) Law enforcement, Section 38(1)(b) Health and safety and Section 40 Personal information.

Unfortunately, we have estimated that the cost of complying with this part of your request would exceed the “appropriate limit” specified in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulation 2004 SI 2004 No 3244. These are known as the ‘Fees Regulations’ for brevity. Section 12 of the Act provides that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request if the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit.

The aforementioned Fees Regulations stipulate that this limit is £450; calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described and equates to 18 hours of work.

I can confirm that there is no information held within the scope of your request between the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Lewisham Council.

Please find attached a copy of an information report for local residents which relates to the GLA commissioned service No Second Night Out. A near identical report also exists for internal use only which details some additional information regarding the space onsite that will be used for the new staff office.