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From: brian ovens
24 November 2010
Dear Stirling Council,
Can you tell me through the Freedom Of Information act how much
Stirling Council has payed Albion Holiday lets in the last 5 years?
Can you tell me who this money actually goes to, ie,
directors.shareholders etc?
Can you tell me who it is that benefits from there stay at these
holiday lets? A full list please.
Is the money spent for these Holiday lets payed into Banks in the
UK or are they payed off shore?
Yours faithfully,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
25 November 2010
Dear Mr Ovens
Your request for information has been logged and a response will be issued by not later than 22 December. The request has been allocated reference: FOI/2999/10
Regards
Fiona Wilbraham
Records Management Officer
for:
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
Stirling Council
01786-442926
[Stirling Council request email]
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From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
10 December 2010
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/2999/10
There has been no payments to Albion Holiday Lets therefore section 17 ( Notice that information is not held) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 applies.
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request for information has been dealt with you are entitled to request a review of the actions and decisions made by the Council in relation to your request. You can, if you wish, ask informally for the reasoning behind the response, and if still dissatisfied you can request a formal review. In any case, your request for review must be in writing or some other permanent form stating your name and address for correspondence, and specifying the request for information to which your request for review relates and why you are dissatisfied with the response.
You must make your request for review not later than 40 working days after the expiry of the 20 working day period of response to your initial request by the Council or not later than 40 days after the receipt by you of the information provided, any fees notice issued or any notification of refusal or partial refusal.
Your request for review should be addressed in the first instance to:
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
Governance
Old Viewforth
STIRLING
FK8 2ET
E.Mail: [email address]
Allan Graham will then arrange for an appropriate officer to undertake a review.
Please note that in any e.mail you must state your name.
If you are dissatisfied with how your request for a review has been dealt with, then you are entitled to ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to investigate your case. You must ask the Scottish Information Commissioner no later than 6 months after the date of receipt by you of the notice or decision you are dissatisfied with or within 6 months of the expiry of the period of 20 working days from receipt by the Council of your request for review. Your should write to;
The Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9DS
(Tel 01334 464610)
Email: [email address]
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
From: brian ovens
11 December 2010
Dear FOI FOI,
Can you clear something up then? My records show that Stirling
Council payed Albion Lets and property Management Ltd £1,032,00 on
the 9/72008, what was this for?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
13 December 2010
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/2999/10
It was a payment for Homeless Accommodation.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
13 December 2010
Dear FOI FOI,
Cheers for that.
Can I get the answers to my other question now?
Here is my request that I put in last month.
Can you tell me through the Freedom Of Information act how much
Stirling Council has payed Albion Lets and property management ltd
in the last 5 years?
Can you tell me who this money actually goes to, ie,
directors.shareholders etc?
Can you tell me who it is that benefits from there stay at these
holiday lets? A full list please.
Is the money spent for these Holiday lets payed into Banks in the
UK or are they payed off shore?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
13 December 2010
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/2999/10
Your original request was for Albion Holiday Lets and not Albion Lets and Property Management. Do you wish to make a new request in respect Albion Lets and Property Management?
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
13 December 2010
Dear FOI FOI,
Yes, sorry about that.
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
13 December 2010
Dear Brian,
Your request for information has been logged and a response will be issued by not later than 14 January. The request has been allocated reference: FOI/3035/10
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
14 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3035/10
Albion Lets and Property Management Ltd
Expenditure in the last 5 years:
Current year £159412.37
Previous year £456303.35
Year 2 £259112.00
Year 3 £74556.35
Year 4 £109153.69
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request for
information has been dealt with you are entitled to request a review of
the actions and decisions made by the Council in relation to your
request. You can, if you wish, ask informally for the reasoning behind
the response, and if still dissatisfied you can request a formal review.
In any case, your request for review must be in writing or some other
permanent form stating your name and address for correspondence, and
specifying the request for information to which your request for review
relates and why you are dissatisfied with the response.
You must make your request for review not later than 40 working days
after the expiry of the 20 working day period of response to your
initial request by the Council or not later than 40 days after the
receipt by you of the information provided, any fees notice issued or
any notification of refusal or partial refusal.
Your request for review should be addressed in the first instance to:
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
Governance
Old Viewforth
STIRLING
FK8 2ET
E.Mail: [email address]
Allan Graham will then arrange for an appropriate officer to undertake
a review.
Please note that in any e.mail you must state your name.
If you are dissatisfied with how your request for a review has been
dealt with, then you are entitled to ask the Scottish Information
Commissioner to investigate your case. You must ask the Scottish
Information Commissioner no later than 6 months after the date of
receipt by you of the notice or decision you are dissatisfied with or
within 6 months of the expiry of the period of 20 working days from
receipt by the Council of your request for review. Your should write
to;
The Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9DS
(Tel 01334 464610)
Email: [email address]
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
From: brian ovens
14 January 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
Please pass this person onto the internal review committee.
You have completely ignored my questions after answering the 1st.
And can you be clearer on the figures, is this in Millions or
Thousands? These numbers have been thrown together.
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
17 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3035/10
Albion Lets and Property Management Ltd
Expenditure in the last 5 years:
Current year £159,412.37
Previous year £456,303.35
Year 2 £259,112.00
Year 3 £74,556.35
Year 4 £109,153.69
Please repeat your questions and I will endeavour to answer.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
17 January 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
Here my original request...........
Can you tell me through the Freedom Of Information act how much
Stirling Council has payed Albion Holiday lets in the last 5 years?
Can you tell me who this money actually goes to, ie,
directors.shareholders etc?
Can you tell me who it is that benefits from there stay at these
holiday lets? A full list please.
Is the money spent for these Holiday lets payed into Banks in the
UK or are they payed off shore?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
17 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3035/10
Can you tell me through the Freedom Of Information act how much
Stirling Council has payed Albion Holiday lets in the last 5 years?
Answered
Can you tell me who this money actually goes to, ie,
directors.shareholders etc?
It is a limited company.
Can you tell me who it is that benefits from there stay at these
holiday lets? A full list please.
It was homeless accommodation. My email of 13 December confirms that.
Is the money spent for these Holiday lets payed into Banks in the UK or
are they payed off shore?
BACS transfer to UK Bank.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
17 January 2011
Dear FOI FOI,Thanks, can you clear some tings up?
1. Which UK bank is the money transfered to?
2. What is the total of homeless people who have lived at this
company's accommodation in the last 5 years?
3. How many Homeless accomodations does this Company own that the
Council pay for? Can you include a full list of the actual names of
the accomodations please?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
19 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3035/10
The money was transferred to RBS.
Parts 2 and 3 will processed as a new FOI request. Confirmation to follow.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
19 January 2011
Dear Brian,
Requests 2 and 3
Your request for information has been logged and a response will be issued by not later than 14 February. The request has been allocated reference: FOI/3102/11.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
27 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3102/11
Response in italics:
2. What is the total of homeless people who have lived at this company's accommodation in the last 5 years?
217
3. How many Homeless accomodations does this Company own that the Council pay for? Can you include a full list of the actual names of the accomodations please?
2 Princes Street Stirling FK8 1HH
3a Bruce Street Stirling FK8 1DP
3b Bruce Street Stilring FK8 1DP
3d Bruce Street Stirling FK8 1DP
3f Bruce Street Stirling FK8 1DP
22e Bruce Street Stirling FK8 1DP
42 Cowane Street Stirling FK8 1JR
44a Cowane Street Stirling FK8 1JR
44c Cowane Street Stirling FK8 1JR
44d Cowane Street Stirling FK8 1JR
53a 1/3 Cowane Street Stirling FK8 1JP
40 Barton Street Stirling FK8 1NA
17a Wallace Street Stirling FK8 1NS
1 Middlemuir Road Stirling FK7 7SE
1 Borrowlea Road Stirling FK7 7SF
25 Borrowlea Road Stirling FK7 7SF
If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request for information has been dealt with you are entitled to request a review of the actions and decisions made by the Council in relation to your request. You can, if you wish, ask informally for the reasoning behind the response, and if still dissatisfied you can request a formal review. In any case, your request for review must be in writing or some other permanent form stating your name and address for correspondence, and specifying the request for information to which your request for review relates and why you are dissatisfied with the response.
You must make your request for review not later than 40 working days after the expiry of the 20 working day period of response to your initial request by the Council or not later than 40 days after the receipt by you of the information provided, any fees notice issued or any notification of refusal or partial refusal.
Your request for review should be addressed in the first instance to:
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
Governance
Old Viewforth
STIRLING
FK8 2ET
E.Mail: [email address]
Allan Graham will then arrange for an appropriate officer to undertake a review.
Please note that in any e.mail you must state your name.
If you are dissatisfied with how your request for a review has been dealt with, then you are entitled to ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to investigate your case. You must ask the Scottish Information Commissioner no later than 6 months after the date of receipt by you of the notice or decision you are dissatisfied with or within 6 months of the expiry of the period of 20 working days from receipt by the Council of your request for review. Your should write to;
The Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9DS
(Tel 01334 464610)
Email: [email address]
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
From: brian ovens
27 January 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
Thank you, is this the full list? Im getting the same address and
phone number for "albion holiday lets" yet this isnt on your list.
Who owns this?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
28 January 2011
Dear Brian,
Yes. Both businesses operate from the same premises.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
28 January 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
So its the same company? Can you tell me the full list of
properties that is paid for by the Council that are used by both
these companies. I take it, the same people on both?
And you never gave me the name of the owners.
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
31 January 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3102/11
We have supplied the full list. If you require information on ownership I suggest you contact Companies House.
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
3 February 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
I have had a look thanks.
Can you clear something up, this company has also got another
address for Barton Street in Stirling, how come it has two
address's and what benefits does the company gain from this?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
3 February 2011
Dear Brian,
That is a question for the company and not Stirling Council.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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From: brian ovens
3 February 2011
Dear FOI FOI,
So Stirling Council makes no payments to this address?
Yours sincerely,
brian ovens
From: brian ovens
8 February 2011
Dear Stirling Council,
Do you have an answer to my last question?
Yours faithfully,
brian ovens
From: FOI FOI
Stirling Council
9 February 2011
Dear Brian,
OR: FOI/3102/11
We have no further information and therefore section 17 (Notice that information is not held) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 applies. I would also refer you to my response of the 3rd February.
Allan Graham
Information Compliance Officer
01786-442926
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