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From: J A Giggins
7 June 2011
Dear Homes and Communities Agency,
Please could you supply:-
1) A link to the final investment statements (Q4 2010-11) for the
2008-11 National Affordable Housing programme.
2) The timetable for announcement of successfull bids/grant
allocations under the 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme.
3) Bid details, evaluation, and status of any bid under the above
programme (or any other current programme being run by the HCA) to
redevelop the Priory/Platt Court in Hungerford, Berkshire. Details
to include all bid related documentation with Sovereign Development
Consortium/Sovereign South & West/Sovereign Group, West Berkshire
Council, their agents, and any other potential development partner
for this site. Documentation to include letters, e-mails,
notes/minutes of meetings, notes of telephone calls and printouts
of all details submitted electronically or via IMS, whether held as
a 'bid' or as part of your 'forward allocation pool'.
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
J A Giggins
Homes and Communities Agency
7 June 2011
ENQUIRY SUBJECT: Freedom of Information request - 2011-14 Grants
Thank you for your enquiry sent to the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA).
If you are making a request under the Freedom of Information Act, your email has been forwarded to our Information Access Officer who will send you a formal acknowledgement under separate cover. For all other enquiries a second acknowledgement will be sent shortly advising you of our standard response times and your enquiry reference number.
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From: Catherine West
7 June 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your recent email, which requested information in pursuance
of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please find attached our acknowledgment of receipt of your Request.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: J A Giggins
7 June 2011
Dear Homes and Communities Agency,
Following a FOI response from Bracknell Forest Borough Council who
led the Berkshire LIP process, I would like to extend part 3 of my
request to include all West Berkshire Extra Care schemes.
Although the Priory features as a named scheme in the LIP,
Bracknell Forest Borough Council seem to be indicating that it may
be rolled in with other developments under the more generic name of
'West Berkshire Extra Care schemes'.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/67...
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
J A Giggins
Homes and Communities Agency
7 June 2011
ENQUIRY SUBJECT: Re: Freedom of Information request - 2011-14 Grants
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If you are making a request under the Freedom of Information Act, your email has been forwarded to our Information Access Officer who will send you a formal acknowledgement under separate cover. For all other enquiries a second acknowledgement will be sent shortly advising you of our standard response times and your enquiry reference number.
The Enquiries team
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From: Catherine West
8 June 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your email, which requested that that we amend the scope of
your Request for Information.
I can confirm that the scope of your Request has been amended.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: Catherine West
8 June 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your email, which requested that that we amend the scope of
your Request for Information.
I can confirm that the scope of your Request has been amended.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: Catherine West
4 July 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your recent email, which requested information in pursuance
of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please find attached our response to your Request.
I hope that you find this information helpful. Please do not hesitate to
contact me if you have any further queries.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: J A Giggins
16 November 2011
Dear Catherine West,
I would be grateful if you would pass this request for internal
review of part 3 of the request in light of the information
received from Natural England. For clarity, I have reproduced the
question below:
3) Please supply bid details, evaluation, and status of any bid
under the above programme (or any other current programme being run
by the HCA) to redevelop the Priory/Platt Court in Hungerford,
Berkshire. Details to include all bid related documentation with
Sovereign Development Consortium/Sovereign South & West/Sovereign
Group, West Berkshire Council, their agents, and any other
potential development partner
for this site. Documentation to include letters,
e-mails,notes/minutes of meetings, notes of telephone calls and
printouts of all details submitted electronically or via IMS,
whether held as a 'bid' or as part of your 'forward allocation
pool'.
As I am sure you are aware the purpose of my request was to
establish whether the HCA was still intending to fund the project
despite the "inaccuracies" identified by your internal audit
department in the first two grant applications. If that is the case
then I would appreciate an unambiguous answer together with the
supporting documentation originally requested (and re-requested
now).
Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine West
16 November 2011
I am out of the office until Monday 21 November. I will not have access to my emails during this time.
If you wish to make a new request for information under the Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, please forward your enquiry to [Homes and Communities Agency request email]. Please note your email will not be automatically forwarded.
All other emails, including those relating to outstanding Requests for Information, will be addressd upon my return.
Should you wish to speak to a member of the legal services team, please call 0300 123 4500.
From: Catherine West
21 November 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Your request for an Internal Review has been forwarded to my colleagues in the Legal Services team for their attention.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: J A Giggins
14 December 2011
Dear Catherine West,
Please could you advise on the progress of the internal review of
this request.
Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine West
14 December 2011
I am out of the office until Friday 16 December 2011. I will not have access to my emails during this time.
If you wish to make a new request for information under the Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, please forward your enquiry to [Homes and Communities Agency request email]. Please note your email will not be automatically forwarded.
All other emails, including those relating to outstanding Requests for Information, will be addressd upon my return.
Should you wish to speak to a member of the legal services team, please call 0300 123 4500.
From: Catherine Talbot
14 December 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your request for an Internal Review of the above.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Regards
Catherine Talbot
Solicitor
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: J A Giggins
14 December 2011
Dear Catherine Talbot,
Thank you for your response. I am indeed unsatisfied with it, and
will be taking it to the Information Commissioner.
Furthermore I would like to draw your attention to the final
paragraph of my email of 16th November to Catherine West,
reproduced below:
"As I am sure you are aware the purpose of my request was to
establish whether the HCA was still intending to fund the project
despite the "inaccuracies" identified by your internal audit
department in the first two grant applications. If that is the case
then I would appreciate an unambiguous answer together with the
supporting documentation originally requested (and re-requested
now)."
As you can see I have already made a request for the further
information (up to 16th November)and I was expecting it to be
supplied today. I would be grateful if you would provide the
information and/or a valid reason for the non disclosure.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine Talbot
14 December 2011
I am out of the office on the afternoon of Monday 12 December and Tuesday 13 December with limited access to emails. I shall respond to your email as soon as I am able. If the matter is urgent please contact Margaret Connolly on 0207 8748283. If you wish to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, please forward your enquiry to [Homes and Communities Agency request email]. Please note that your email will not be automatically forwarded.
From: J A Giggins
16 December 2011
Dear Catherine Talbot,
I would be grateful if you could confirm receipt of my email of
14th December, and provide the information requested which is now
overdue.
Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine Talbot
16 December 2011
I am out of the office on Friday 16 December with limited access to emails. I shall respond to your email as soon as I am able. If the matter is urgent please contact Margaret Connolly on 0207 8748283. If you wish to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, please forward your enquiry to [Homes and Communities Agency request email]. Please note that your email will not be automatically forwarded.
From: J A Giggins
16 December 2011
Dear Homes and Communities Agency,
As Ms Talbot is not available this week, I would be grateful if
someone else could chase up the information requested in my email
of 16th November to Catherine West via this site,reproduced below:
"As I am sure you are aware the purpose of my request was to
establish whether the HCA was still intending to fund the project
despite the "inaccuracies" identified by your internal audit
department in the first two grant applications. If that is the case
then I would appreciate an unambiguous answer together with the
supporting documentation originally requested (and re-requested
now)."
As you can see I have already made a request for the further
information (up to 16th November)and I was expecting it to be
supplied on 14th December. I would be grateful if you would provide
the information and/or a valid reason for the non disclosure.
Yours faithfully,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine West
16 December 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your emails, addressed to my colleague Catherine Talbot.
We appreciate that our response may have caused some confusion, so would like to provide the following explanation.
Your email of 16 November 2011 was understood to request an Internal Review of our handling of your Request for Information, RFI:8692-11. We interpreted the final paragraph of that email (and reproduced in your email of 14 December 2011) to relate to the information "held" at the time of your original request, and not to represent any further Request for Information. Where you asked for the information "previously requested, and re-requested now", we understood this to relate to the information you believed to have been held at the time of the previous Request. As you will be aware, the purpose of an Internal Review is to establish whether a Request was appropriately considered, and not to look at the disclosure of additional information outside the scope of the original Request. As such, my colleagues' investigations undertook to establish only whether the previous response was correct; they did not consider the disclosure of the information received since that time.
However, in view of your comments, we have logged a new Request for Information, RFI:9247-11, to consider the provision of the information received since the date of your original Request (RFI:8692-11). Our acknowledgement is attached. We appreciate that you may, of course, proceed to contact the ICO with regards to our handling of RFI:8692-11, and we would be fully cooperative with any investigations.
We would apologise for any confusion, and hope that you will be able to bear with us whilst we investigate your new Request for Information. However, if you have any queries or questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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Homes and Communities Agency
16 December 2011
ENQUIRY SUBJECT: Re: Freedom of Information request - 2011-14 Grants
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If you are making a request under the Freedom of Information Act, your email has been forwarded to our Information Access Officer who will send you a formal acknowledgement under separate cover. For all other enquiries a second acknowledgement will be sent shortly advising you of our standard response times and your enquiry reference number.
The Enquiries team
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From: J A Giggins
16 December 2011
Dear Catherine West,
Thank you for your explanation. However, the fact remains that I
requested the information on 16th November, and it is now overdue.
In light of the previous ambiguity of your responses I would be
grateful if you would expedite provision of the information.
Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine West
16 January 2012
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your recent email, which requested information in pursuance
of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please find attached our response to your Request.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: J A Giggins
17 January 2012
Dear Catherine West,
Many thanks for your response. I would like to request an internal
review, as I cannot believe that this is all the information that
you hold in relation to the Priory/Platt Court development, or that
calling it a different name - 'Berkshire-West', or 'Priory Road',
exempts you from disclosure either under the FOI Act or the
Environmental Information Regulations, which may be applicable in
this case.
Furthermore, I do not accept your reasons for the non disclosure of
the total bid of which this development now forms a part,
particularly under the EIR's which have a stronger presumption in
favour of disclosure.
I would be grateful if you would perform the review under the FOI
Act and the EIR's should you feel that they are applicable, so as
not to delay matters should the non disclosure be upheld by
yourselves and the matter then referred on to the ICO.
I shall be pursuing the explanation given of the late
addition/substitution of the Priory/Platt Court development into
the bid/grant with your internal and external auditors. I am well
aware that the development was included in the Berkshire LIP, but
have been unable to establish why, as it didn't meet sufficient of
the criteria to merit it's inclusion (pre-planning)or priority. I
can only conclude that incorrect information was supplied, as it
was to the HCA in support of the previous two unsuccessful bids for
the project under the previous scheme and to Natural England in
support of the bat licence. Furthermore, the details downloaded
from your IMS system are inconsistent with the details of the LIP
which seems to have prioritised this scheme as an 'Extra Care/over
55' scheme of more than 50 affordable units. I notice that the
revised details on your IMS system are for 34 units. I also notice
that the site is classified as "brownfield" although the applicants
acknowledged in their planning application that this was not the
case, following changes to PPS3 made by the current government.
Yours sincerely,
J A Giggins
From: Catherine West
18 January 2012
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your email. Your request for an Internal Review has been forwarded to my colleagues accordingly.
Kind regards
Catherine West
Information Access Officer
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: Catherine Talbot
18 January 2012
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your email of yesterday to my colleague Catherine West. Your request has been passed to me to co-ordinate the internal review of RFI:9247-11.
I shall be in contact again with the outcome of the review but please do not hesitate to contact myself or Catherine should you have any queries in the interim.
Regards
Catherine Talbot
Solicitor
Homes and Communities Agency
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From: Catherine Talbot
14 February 2012
Dear Ms Giggins
Please find attached a letter detailing the outcome of the Internal Review
in relation to your request.
Kind Regards
Catherine Talbot
Solicitor
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