Closure Orders

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/009445/X

Version Date: 08/05/2026

The Legal Department has provided the following information:

1, How many closure orders have police secured broken down by the following CALENDAR years? 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

• 2015 = 0
• 2016 = 0
• 2017 = 0
• 2018 = 0
• 2019 = 2
• 2020 = 24
• 2021 = 13
• 2022 = 13
• 2023 = 17
• 2024 = 28
• 2025 = 67

2, Of those how many were:

A,  residential addresses

• 2019 = 1
• 2020 = 23
• 2021 = 12
• 2022 = 13
• 2023 = 17
• 2024 = 28
• 2025 = 46

B, non-residential addresses

• 2019 = 1

• 2020 = 1
• 2021 = 1
• 2022 = 0
• 2023 = 0
• 2024 = 0
• 2025 = 21

Should it become apparent that answering this FOI in full would exceed the cost limit please provide the answer to question 1 only.