This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Allotment waiting lists'.

Your ref:

Our ref: LS/DH2/FOI 810

Please ask for: Mrs D Hall

Tel: 01271 388257

Fax: 01271 388261

Email: [North Devon Council request email]

Date: 28 January 2010

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Ms Margaret Campbell

[FOI #25430 email]

Dear Ms Campbell

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (the Act)

REQUEST APPLICATION NUMBER: 810

In your email received 4 January 2010, you requested the following information regarding allotments from January 2010:

  1. The number of allotment sites in North Devon for which North Devon District

Council has access to waiting list data?

2) The total number of plots on the sites given in 1 above?

3) The total number of people on waiting lists for these sites?

4) Are any of these waiting lists closed to further applications?

5) How many new council allotment sites were brought into use in

2009? You request the:

a) number of new sites

b) names of new sites

c) total area of new land in hectares

d) total number of new plots

Section 1(1)(a) of the Act requires the Council to inform you whether it holds information of the description specified in your request. I confirm that the Council does hold the information you request. In discharge of its obligation under section 1(1)(b), the Council can provide you with the following:

  1. The Council has 1 allotment site for which it has access to waiting list data.

  1. The total number of plots on the site given in question 1 is 27.

  1. The total number of people on the waiting list as given in question 1 is 24.

  1. The waiting list as given in question 1 is not closed to further applications.

  1. One new Council allotment site was brought into use in 2009 and the details for this site are as follows:

a) number of new site(s) 1

b) name(s) of new site(s) Babbages

c) total area of new land in hectares 0.3 hectare

d) total number of new plots 31

Please note: Babbages site was brought into use by the Council however, the site and the waiting list are managed by Fremington Parish Council.

The information provided to you under the Act is for your own use only and may not be re-used without the consent of the Council.

Should you have any complaint in relation to the handling of this request, please refer to the Council's internal complaint process, details of which are set out on the Council's website: www.northdevon.gov.uk

I am also required to advise you of your right under Section 50 of the Act to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether, in any specified respect, your request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of Part I of the Act.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel: 01625 545 745

Fax: 01625 524 510

Email: [email address]

Yours sincerely

MRS D HALL

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER

LEGAL SERVICES UNIT

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