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Your Ref:

Margaret Campbell

Please ask for Norman Landels

Direct Dial: 01467 628318

Email: [email address]

18 February 2010

If you have difficulty reading this document please contact Norman Landels on 01467 628318

Dear Ms Campbell

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - (“The Act”)

Acknowledgement

I refer to your request for information from the Council dated 22 January 2010 with regard to Allotment Sites in Aberdeenshire.

We confirm that the council holds the following information, which we believe satisfies your request.

There are 7 allotment sites in Aberdeenshire where the Council manages the waiting lists. There are also 2 Council sites where the waiting lists are managed by local Allotment Associations.
There are 36 plots in total.
There are 112 people on the waiting lists for an Allotment.
None of the waiting lists are closed.
No new plots were brought into use in 2009.

Please contact me as the officer responsible for responding to your request if you have any further queries.

If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this response, please refer to the further information attached.

Yours faithfully

NORMAN LANDELS

POLICY OFFICER (ESTATES)

Further Information:

Aberdeenshire Council's Review Procedure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:-

If you wish Aberdeenshire Council to review its actions and/or decisions with respect to your Request for Information, you should contact:-

Alastair Nicol,

Principal Committee Officer,

Aberdeenshire Council,

Woodhill House,

Westburn Road,

Aberdeen AB16 5GB;

(e-mail [email address]):

no later than 40 days after you receive the Notice intimating the decision that you want to have reviewed.

Your request for review must be in writing or in another form which has some permanency and is capable of being used for subsequent reference (e.g. audio/video tape recording). You must state your name and address for correspondence. You must also give details of the information which you originally requested and the reasons why you are dissatisfied with the way in which your application for information has been dealt with.

The Principal Committee Officer will arrange for your application for review to be considered by the Review Panel. The Review Panel will write to you informing you of its decision by not later than twenty working days after receipt of your request for a review. The Review Panel will also provide you with a statement of its reasons for arriving at the decision it has made.

Your Right to Complain to the Scottish Information Commissioner:

If you are dissatisfied with the Review Panel's decision, you may appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

An appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner must be made within six months, specifying:-

the Request for Information to which the requirement for review by relates;
the reasons for your dissatisfaction with the review decision;

The Scottish Information Commissioner can be contacted at:-

Scottish Information Commissioner,

Kinburn Castle,

Doubledykes Road,

St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS

Telephone - 01334 464610;

Fax - 01334 464611;

Email - enquiries@its publicknowledge.info