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Mr Williams made this Freedom of Information request to Brentwood Borough Council
Waiting for an internal review by Brentwood Borough Council of their handling of this request.
From: Mr Williams
3 February 2012
Dear Sir,
Please provide documents showing:
1. How Brentwood Borough Council came into ownership of the land on
which Bell Mead sits.
2. What proportion of the site is in use as Bell Mead.
2. How much Brentwood Borough Council paid for the site.
3. If the site was obtained in 1974 from the predecessor local
authority, Chelmsford Rural District Council, how much they
originally paid for the site.
4. Whether Brentwood Borough Council paid for the construction of
the roadway and layby, and if so for what cost.
5. Any covenants or agreements with third parties relating to the
site, or the provision of the roadway and layby.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Williams
From: enquiries@brentwood.gov.uk
Brentwood Borough Council
3 February 2012
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From: Mr Williams
2 March 2012
Dear Sir,
This request is now due for a response - can you please provide an
update?
Yours sincerely,
Mr Williams
From: enquiries@brentwood.gov.uk
Brentwood Borough Council
2 March 2012
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From: Laurie Gibbins
Brentwood Borough Council
5 March 2012
Dear Mr. Williams,
Please see e-mail detailed below, which was returned to me as
undeliverable.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Regards
Laurie Gibbins
Legal Officer & Land Charges Manager
T: 01277 312624
E: [1][email address]
F: 01277 312743
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5 March 2012
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From: Mr Williams
12 March 2012
Dear Brentwood Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Brentwood Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Bell Mead, Ingatestone -
Historic Information'.
A response to my request is now very overdue, despite having sent a
reminder one entire week ago that the legal deadline had passed.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/be...
Yours faithfully,
Mr Williams
From: FOI
Brentwood Borough Council
12 March 2012
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]themeData
Link: [3]colorSchemeMapping
Thankyou for your request.
This has been passed onto the appropriate FOI officer and your request
will be dealt with as soon as possible.
Brentwood Council strives to use your council tax wisely and fairly
across the range of services you receive.
The Council s new budget will be set in February 2012. To follow
decisions your council makes, and find out more about how it provides
value for money for Brentwood s taxpayers visit [4]www.brentwood.gov.uk
or telephone 01277 312500 or follow us on Twitter [5]@Brentwood_BC
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From: Mr Williams
12 March 2012
Dear Sir,
It has been pointed out to me that there was a request for
clarification which I missed.
I do not believe it is reasonable to request a scale plan.
Brentwood Council has recently regularly, in press statements and
meetings, referred to this site as 'Bell Mead' without any
confusion.
If you believe that the council owns multiple sites with that name,
please provide the details for all of them.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Williams
From: FOI
Brentwood Borough Council
12 March 2012
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]themeData
Link: [3]colorSchemeMapping
Thankyou for your request.
This has been passed onto the appropriate FOI officer and your request
will be dealt with as soon as possible.
Brentwood Council strives to use your council tax wisely and fairly
across the range of services you receive.
The Council s new budget will be set in February 2012. To follow
decisions your council makes, and find out more about how it provides
value for money for Brentwood s taxpayers visit [4]www.brentwood.gov.uk
or telephone 01277 312500 or follow us on Twitter [5]@Brentwood_BC
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From: Leanna McPherson
Brentwood Borough Council
16 March 2012
Dear Mr Williams
Please find attached the response to your request.
Kind regards
Leanna McPherson
Leanna McPherson
Committee Services Officer
T: 01277 312739
E: [1][email address]
F: 01277 312744
Brentwood Council strives to use your council tax wisely and fairly
across the range of services you receive.
The Council s new budget will be set in February 2012. To follow
decisions your council makes, and find out more about how it provides
value for money for Brentwood s taxpayers visit [2]www.brentwood.gov.uk
or telephone 01277 312500 or follow us on Twitter [3]@Brentwood_BC
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From: Mr Williams
16 March 2012
Dear Leanna,
I still wish to pursue the Internal Review of the handling of this
request.
Firstly, the request for a site plan was manifestly unreasonable.
Bell Mead is a roadway/carpark in Ingatestone, and is widely
discussed as such internally and externally by the council with no
further clarification being deemed necessary. You refer to the site
quite clearly as such in your response. Indeed, you have managed to
entirely respond to the query without a site plan. A site plan is a
difficult hurdle for a member of the public to comply with (and is
obviously what I am asking for information on, so I don't know
about it), and it appears to have been used solely as an attempt to
derail my request.
To remind you, my wording was quite clear - I referred to the "land
on which Bell Mead sits". There appears to be no confusion as to
what Bell Mead is, or where it is, and it should be obvious to the
Council then which land parcels are relevant.
If you believe the request was reasonable, I would suggest you
explain how there was confusion as to which parcel of land was
being referred to.
Secondly, I have concerns about two specific points in your answer.
In point 5, you state that the contracts that relate to the
construction of the carriageway. I requested details of the costs
of these works in total. Can you confirm that there are no finance
or other council records showing the overall cost of the project?
In point 6, you claim an absolute exemption due to the availability
of the title information at the Land Registry. I requested details
of any covenants or agreements relating to the land. Can you
explicitly confirm that you are saying that other than the land
charges indicated on the title information, there are no other
covenants or agreements relating to the site. You refer to
registered title EX399006, which is inaccurate, as the parking area
also extends onto EX767457 (Brentwood Borough Council ownership)
and of the 24 spaces that BBC claim in the car park, one third are
physically located in EX506273, which is privately owned freehold
land. Are you contending that Brentwood are claiming the use of
those car parking spaces and have issued penalty notices to cars
over staying in those spaces without any agreement with the land's
owner?
Finally, I am very disturbed by the pattern of half-answers,
blatently inaccurate information (only corrected when I challenged
it with facts), and extensive delays I have received in my series
of Freedom of Information Requests relating to parking in
Brentwood. I am still not confident that Brentwood Council has
complied with either the spirit or the letter of the Act, and I
would like a full investigation and this to be processed through
the formal complaints process. I note that the council's
obstructiveness coincides with a public consultation, where some of
the answers to the Freedom of Information requests contract or show
the information supplied to the public to be inaccurate or
incomplete.
I fully intend to raise the matter formally with the Information
Commissioners Office if the internal review and management of the
complaint does not appear to have been properly undertaken.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Williams
From: Leanna McPherson
Brentwood Borough Council
21 March 2012
Dear Mr Williams
I have passed your complaint to the Complaints Co-ordinator who will be in contact with you.
Yours sincerely
Leanna McPherson
Leanna McPherson
Committee Services Officer
T: 01277 312739
E: [email address]
F: 01277 312744
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From: Kevin Ebbs
Brentwood Borough Council
12 April 2012
EX370687 110412.PDF.pdf
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Dear Mr. Williams
I attach my conclusions following your request for an internal review of
your Freedom of Information Act 2000. I also attach copy documents by way
of compliance with my findings and in accordance with the Act.
If you are reading this and able to open PDF documents, you will also note
that I have sent two other emails to you. One is to bring your attention
to the sending of this one and to ask you to contact me if 1) you do not
receive this 2) if you are unable to open the attachments. The second is
to include you on the request for further information in relation to the
costs information you requested in your initial request for information
that I believe warrants further investigation.
Sincerely
Kevin Ebbs
Complaints Coordinator
Brentwood Borough Council
(: 01277 312705
*: [1][email address]
[2]www.brentwood.gov.uk
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From: Kevin Ebbs
Brentwood Borough Council
12 April 2012
Dear Mr Williams
I have sent you an email following the results of my internal review in
respect of your Freedom of Information Act. This was sent this morning,
12 April 2012 via email.
The email contains a number of attachments and may be too large to reach
you in one email. If you either do not receive the same within the next
24 hrs or, if you do receive it you are unable to open the attachments,
please contact me and I shall send the information in bite size portions.
Sincerely
Kevin Ebbs
Complaints Coordinator
Brentwood Borough Council
(: 01277 312705
*: [1][email address]
[2]www.brentwood.gov.uk
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From: Kevin Ebbs
Brentwood Borough Council
12 April 2012
Dear all
I attach a copy of my findings following a request for an internal review
by Mr Williams to the Council’s response to his initial and emailed
request for information relating to Bell Mead in Ingatestone. I attach a
copy of my review and findings, but I have not attached copies of the
information sent to him. I can send these to you if you wish?
I will however refer to the part of his request where I find that the
Council needs to make further and urgent investigations.
Below, I confirm what Mr Williams requested in his initial request for
information; what we said in our reply; what Mr Williams said in his
request for review, and you will note my confirmation to him in my
findings to refer this matter to Adrian to conduct further investigations
into his request and to liaise with whomever where necessary, in order to
respond to this element of his request for information.
Mr Williams asked initially, (and specifically relating to the roadway and
lay by at Bell Mead), “whether Brentwood Borough Council paid for the
construction of the roadway and layby, and if so for what cost”
Adrian commented on this part to Laurie thus, “Brentwood Council
constructed the carriageway and parking areas I believe in the early
1990’s and no longer have records of the contracts that were accepted as
part of the tender exercise leading to the construction of the carriageway
and parking areas.”
In our formal response this was repeated. “It is believed that the
Council constructed the carriageway and parking areas in the early 1990s
and no longer has records of the contracts that were accepted as part of
the tender exercise leading to the construction of the carriageway and
parking areas.”
In Mr Williams’ request for review he said about this point, “…I have
concerns about two specific points in your answer. In point 5, you state
that the contracts that relate to the construction of the carriageway. I
requested details of the costs of these works in total. Can you confirm
that there are no finance or other council records showing the overall
cost of the project?”
Could you therefore investigation this specific request for information
confirming whether you hold the information, and if there are no
exemptions restricting the production of the information, send the
information via email to Mr Williams via his supplied email address?
*Kindly note that as promised, Mr Williams has been included into this
email as part of my findings into his request. His email address is
[1][email address]
I believe that Mr Williams can reasonably expect a reply within the next
10 business days. Adrian, could you please coordinate this response
please?
Regards
Kevin Ebbs
Complaints Coordinator
Brentwood Borough Council
(: 01277 312705
*: [2][email address]
[3]www.brentwood.gov.uk
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