Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:01:27 +0000
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Length of Complaint
From: Right2Know <
[email address]>
To: "C. P. ELLIOTT" <
[FOI #9137 email]>
Dear Mr Elliott
1. Further to your email below, dated 18 March, please send me a copy of the email requesting clarification as I am unable to trace this email.
2. In relation to your second point, all enforcement reports are published within the agenda of the relevant meeting and the minutes of that meeting detail the enforcement action to be taken. Therefore if you are interested in a particular enforcement issue, you need to access the committee papers for that meeting and a link to the committee papers is available from the home page of our website
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk
Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: C. P. ELLIOTT [mailto:[FOI #9137 email]]
Sent: 18 March 2009 13:39
To: Right2Know
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Length of Complaint
Dear Right2Know,
I received an email identifying that a request for clarification
had been sent from yourselves.
As you identify that you publish all your enforcement and stop
notices on your web site.. could you identify where this
iinformation is published as I can't find it. There was such a
facility a few years ago but it seems to have disappeared.
Yours sincerely,
C. P. ELLIOTT
-----Original Message-----
Dear Mr Elliott
Further to your Freedom of Information request below, in relation
to question 1, under section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, I am advising you that the Council does hold the
information, which you have requested.
However such instances are not recorded centrally, and it would be
necessary to go through every single record where enforcement
action has been authorised. Your request for information will not
therefore be processed. This is because the cost of locating and
retrieving the information would greatly exceed the “appropriate”
limited stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate
Limit) Regulations 2004. In accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.
If it is a particular planning enforcement notice you are
interested in, then I should advise you that under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, section 21(1), this is information which is
reasonably accessible to you as all such notices are published on
our website.
In terms of your further questions 2 to 4, under section 14(1), the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that "Section 1(1) does not
oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information
if the request is vexatious." In my opinion, these three questions
are designed to cause disruption or annoyance and they all lack any
serious purpose or value and thus they fall under section 14(1) and
will not be answered.
You have a right of appeal against our decision. In the first
instance this appeal must be internal and we enclose a copy of our
complaints procedure. We hope that you will not feel it necessary
to invoke an appeal, but if you do we will take every care to
re-assess your request and let you have our findings.
Joanna Kitchener Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer South
Norfolk Council Long Stratton, Norwich NR15 2XE 01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk
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