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Margaret Campbell made this Freedom of Information request to Hull City Council
The request was successful.
From: Margaret Campbell
1 January 2010
Dear Hull City Council,
As of January 2010, please could you tell me:
1) How many allotment sites are there in Hull for which Kingston
upon Hull City Council has access to waiting list data?
2) What is the total number of plots on these sites?
3) What is 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? Please give:
a) number of new sites
b) names of new sites
c) total area of new land in hectares
d) total number of new plots
Yours faithfully,
Margaret Campbell
From: Margaret Campbell
8 February 2010
Dear Hull City Council,
I wrote to HCC on the 1st January requesting data on allotment
waiting lists (see below). I haven't yet had a respose to this,
even though by law, the authority should normally have responded
promptly and by 1 February 2010. I would be very grateful if you
could follow this up.
My request was as follows:
"1) How many allotment sites are there in the council area for
which the Council has access to waiting list data?
2) What is the total number of plots on these sites?
3) What is 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? Please give:
a) number of new sites
b) names of new sites
c) total area of new land in hectares
d) total number of new plots"
Many thanks,
Margaret Campbell
From: Information Governance
Hull City Council
11 February 2010
Dear Ms Campbell,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request - 129/10
We acknowledge receipt of your information request which is being
processed according to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unfortunately
we have no record of having received your request previously and therefore
it will be processed according to the date received in your email which is
the 8^th February 2010.
The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond which takes us to
5^th March 2010. There are some circumstances under which this deadline
may be extended legally but we will inform you as soon as we know if these
apply. We are experiencing increasing volumes of requests which we are
endeavouring to resource. Unfortunately until these resources are in
place we may fail to meet some deadlines, however please be assured that
we will endeavour to provide responses as soon as possible.
We are required to advise you that if you wish to complain about our
response in any way, then this should initially be done through the
Council's internal review procedure. Please contact Lynne Bird, Legal
Services, The Guildhall, Hull HU1 2AA to register your complaint. If you
are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you may
take your complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation. Their details are
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone 01625
545 700, Email: [1][email address], web site
[2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.
The Council's Freedom of Information Policy, which includes the charging
policy, is available on request and from the web site
[3]www.hullcc.gov.uk. Also available is a booklet on `Accessing
Information from Hull City Council' which explains how to request
information and your rights (according to the Data Protection Act 1998 and
The Freedom of Information Act 2000).
Regards
Information Governance Team
Hull City Council
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Steve Coldray left an annotation (11 February 2010)
I told you they would use the same feeble excuse they used last year - how predictable ;-)
From: Herring Nigel
Hull City Council
16 February 2010
Dear Ms Campbell
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request - 129/10
With regard to your Freedom of Information request received on 8 February
2010, please find our responses in bold below.
1) How many allotment sites are there in the council area for which the
Council has access to waiting list data?
21
2) What is the total number of plots on these sites?
1500
3) What is the total number of people on waiting lists for these sites?
1086 (as of 12/2/10)
4) Are any of these waiting lists closed to further applications?
No
5) How many new council allotment sites were brought into use in 2009?
Please give:
a) Number of new sites
1
b) Names of new sites
New Portobello Street
c) Total area of new land in hectares
Approximately 1.3 hectares
d) Total number of new plots
42
We hope that you will be satisfied with our response and should you
require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact
us.
We are required to advise you that if you wish to complain about our
response in any way, then this should initially be done through the
Council's internal complaints procedure. Please contact Lynne Bird, Legal
Services, The Guildhall, Hull HU1 2AA to register your complaint. If you
are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal complaints procedure
then you may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office,
the government body established to enforce the legislation. Their details
are Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone
01625 545 700, Email: [1][email address], web site
[2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.
The Council's Freedom of Information Policy, which includes the charging
policy, is available on request and from the web site
[3]www.hullcc.gov.uk. Also available is a booklet on `Accessing
Information from Hull City Council' which explains how to request
information and your rights (according to the Data Protection Act 1998 and
The Freedom of Information Act 2000).
Regards
Information Governance Team
Hull City Council
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Steve Coldray left an annotation ( 8 February 2010)
The funny thing is the initial message is sent the same way as the follow up, therefore by replying to the follow up, they automatically admit that the system will have sent them the first and that that they just 'couldnt be bothered' to reply.
I too requested the same information in a direct email to the allotments department and was told they were looking into acquiring new land.
Within Hull several former allotments have been sold off for housing and building sites in the last few years despite a shortage and waiting list of 4 years (according to the email they sent me)
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