Dear Camden Borough Council,

Please would you provide copies of ALL correspondence, whether sent
or received and internal or external (emails, letters, memos etc),
by Councillor Chris Knight and the council's parking department
regarding motorcycle parking since 1st January 2009.

Yours faithfully,

J Smith

Dear Camden Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Camden Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Correspondence regarding
motorcycle parking'.

I am still waiting for a reply to my FOI request, which is long
overdue and, in addition to receiving a response to my request, I
demand a full explanation for the severe and unacceptable delay in
answering this FOI.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Yours faithfully,

J Smith

Dear Camden Borough Council,

I give you until the end of the week to provide me with the results
of your internal review and a response to my FOI request. If I
haven't heard from you by 19th February close of business, the
matter will be referred to the Information Commissioner for
investigation.

Yours faithfully,

J Smith

Alexis, Shawn would like to recall the message, "Freedom of Information
request - Correspondence regarding motorcycle parking".

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FOI: J Smith,

I would like to apologise for the late response to your FOI request and
any trouble it may have caused. I'm currently speaking with our Traffic
Engineers with the Engineering Service and hopefully I shall have some
feedback tomorrow.

Unfortunately your request was initially sent to Parking Services who
failed to pass it onto yourselves within 20 working day timeline. So, as
mentioned earlier, hopefully I can obtain the information requested and
forward that to you tomorrow afternoon (Friday 18 February 2010).

If there are any problems regarding this I will inform you as soon as
possible.

Many thanks,

Shawn Alexis
Senior Administration Officer

Telephone: 020 7974 2604

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FOI: J Smith,

I would like to apologise for the late response to your FOI request and
any trouble it may have caused. I'm currently speaking with our Traffic
Engineers with the Engineering Service and hopefully I shall have some
feedback tomorrow.

Unfortunately your request was initially sent to Parking Services who
failed to pass it onto yourselves within 20 working day timeline. So, as
mentioned earlier, hopefully I can obtain the information requested and
forward that to you tomorrow afternoon (Friday 19 February 2010).

If there are any problems regarding this I will inform you as soon as
possible.

Many thanks,

Shawn Alexis
Senior Administration Officer

Telephone: 020 7974 2604

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FAO: J Smith,

As per my email yesterday, I mentioned if there were any problems I will
inform you as soon as possible.

Unfortunately one my colleague's who may have information to your
request is currently on annual leave until Tuesday 23 February 2010.
This was only brought to my attention this afternoon. When they return
we can hopefully forward a response shortly thereafter.

Again, I will keep you updated of any further developments.

Many thanks.

Shawn Alexis
Senior Administration Officer

Telephone: 020 7974 2604

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Dear Shawn Alexis,

Thank you for your update. Please note that I have also requested
an internal review to be carried out, so I would appreciate it, if
together with your response to this FOI request, you would let me
have the results of your internal review, in accordance with the
requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In the absence of a full internal review, I will consider it
necessary to forward this FOI to the Information Commissioner, if I
haven't heard anything back by Wednesday 24th February (being the
day after your colleague's return to the office).

Yours sincerely,

J Smith

Camden Council - Information request (FOI/EIR) - Culture and environment

Our reference: 6020439

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Dear Shawn Alexis,

Just so that you know, I am in the process of taking this FOI to
the Information Commissioner for breach of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Camden Council have failed to reply within
the 20 statutory working days and a response from you (including an
internal review) is well overdue, despite me having chased a few
times.

Yours sincerely,

J Smith

Dear J Smith,

You are entitled to request an appeal for the information requested on
11 December 2009.

You can make this request to Peter Swingler, Freedom of Information
Appeals Panel, Central Complaints Unit, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street,
London WC1H 9JE and your complaint will be dealt with through our
Internal Review procedure.

If you are still not satisfied following the Internal Review, you have a
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner. He can be contacted at:

Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Shawn Alexis
Senior Administration Officer

Telephone: 020 7974 2604

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Dear Shawn Alexis,

In your latest response dated 25th February 2010, are you implying
that you are not going to provide me with the requested
information? If this is the case, and according to the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, you are required to provide a refusal notice
and explain the reason(s) why you are reluctant to provide the
information requested.

As for internal reviews, please would you explain why you believe
they cannot be requested via the www.whatdotheyknow.com website and
why I would need to write to your Freedom of Information Appeals
Panel, independently from this website. In your explanation, please
would you quote the specific section(s) within the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 which clearly state(s) that I am not allowed
to request an internal review within the www.whatdotheyknow.com
website.

I await your prompt response.

Yours sincerely,

J Smith

Dear Mr Smith,

Please see attached Camden's response to your FOI request sent to
www.whatdotheyknow.com on Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 16:18hrs.

The request was refused on the grounds that the information is available
on Camden's website to which a direct link to where the information is
held.

In reference to your appeal, I merely referred you to the point of
contact for Camden's Freedom of Information Appeals Panel if you are
dissatisfied with Camden's response; this is also mentioned in the
response sent to yourself. I never implied that you cannot do this
through www.whatdotheyknow.com.

However, I can pass your request to the Appeals Panel so they can carry
out their investigation.

If there are any problems please do not hesitate to contact me.

Central Complaints - Can you please carried out an investigation to Mr J
Smith's FOI request made on 11 December 2009? Please see reference
number enclosed in the subject head.

Shawn Alexis
Senior Administration Officer

Telephone: 020 7974 2604

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Camden Council - Information request (FOI/EIR) - Culture and environment

Our reference: 6020439

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Dear Shawn Alexis,

So all in all, it took the council almost 3 months to issue a
refusal notice to this FOI. Not only did you ignore the FOI during
the statutory 20 working days and, when chased, you advised that
you were looking into it to finally advise today that the request
has been refused.

I have asked for copies of ALL correspondence whether sent or
received and internal or external (emails, letters, memos etc), by
Councillor Chris Knight and the council's parking department
regarding motorcycle parking since 1st January 2009. You are now
telling me that this information is available on the council's
website. Are you implying that you are publishing ALL
correspondence sent and received from and by Council staff on your
website?

Please provide the specific links to the council's website where
copies of ALL correspondence I am after is available, as you have
failed to do so on your response today. I have looked and can't
find anything.

I am also waiting for your internal review, which I am perfectly
entitled to request via the www.whatdotheyknow.com website.

If I haven't heard back from you within 24 hours from the date and
time of this email with the links to the council's website where
ALL the correspondence requested is available, I will refer the
matter to the Information Commissioner for failure to provide the
information requested within the timeframe allowed by the Freedom
of Information Act 2000. I will also refer the case to the ICO for
failure to provide an adequate and appropriate reason for your
decision to refuse this FOI request.

The way the council has handled this FOI request so far is totally
unacceptable.

Yours sincerely,

J Smith

Dear J. Smith

Please refer to the attached reply from the Internal Review Panel

Yours sincerely

Peter Swingler
On behalf of the Internal Review Panel
FOI Act
LB of Camden
30/3/10
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Dear Mr Swingler,

Thank you for your internal review regarding the above FOI request.

The link that I was given is this:
http://www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/content/cou...

and I can't see how it provides the information I initially
requested. The page is to do with Drury Lane pedestrian
improvements, therefore would you please explain how this relates
to motorcycle parking and, moreover, provides copies of the
correspondence relating to motorcycle parking that I requested.

The ICO have today replied to my complaint and I have a copy of the
letter they sent you. They have advised me to contact them again
should I not receive a satisfactory response to my FOI request,
which I intend to do if I have not received clarification from you
within 10 working days from today.

Yours sincerely,

J Smith

Dear Mr Smith

I refer you to the Panel's reply yesterday

Any further communication should be addressed to the Information
Commissioner's Office (Mr Dunn there having been already approached by
you([email address])

Yours sincerely

Peter Swingler
On behalf of the Internal Review panel
FOI Act
LB of Camden
31/3/10

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