Planning Applications featuring Change of Use from A1

Matt White made this Freedom of Information request to Fylde Borough Council

Waiting for an internal review by Fylde Borough Council of their handling of this request.

From: Matt White

29 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I believe you are an authority with planning responsibilities
(according to
http://www.theplanningdirectory.co.uk/au...), apologies
if this is not the case.

Can you please let me know the following relating to planning
applications featuring a change of use from A1 (shop), under the
Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987.

In the last 5 years:

1) How many planning applications have you received featuring a
change of use from A1?

2) Of those applications in 1, how many of these were
retrospective?

3) How many planning applications have you received from Starbucks
(or their representatives) featuring a change of use from A1?

4) Of those applications in 3, how many of these were
retrospective?

Yours faithfully,

Matt White

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From: Curtis, Ian
Fylde Borough Council

30 July 2009

Thank you for your information request.

Information about all planning consents is available on the planning
register, which the council must keep open for public consultation. You
can consult the register by visiting the council's One Stop Shop in
Clifton Drive South, St Annes. Your request therefore falls under the
exemption in section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in that
the information is reasonably accessible to you other than under section
1 of the Act. Please therefore treat this letter as a notice under
section 17 of the act refusing the first two parts of your request.

If you disagree with our decision to refuse this part of your request,
you can ask us to review it. An officer from another council will then
look it at again. If you are still not satisfied with the decision, you
can ask for it to be referred to the Office of the Information
Commissioner. If you want us to review the decision, please write or
email quoting the reference IKC FOI694

Notwithstanding this, I can tell you that the council has had no
applications for or on behalf of Starbucks.

Ian Curtis
Head of Legal Services
Fylde Borough Council

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From: Matt White

30 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Fylde Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Planning Applications
featuring Change of Use from A1'.

You've stated that the register is reasonably accessible at the
council's One Stop shop in Lytham St Annes. Unfortunately I live in
the south of England, so this is not reasonably accessible for
myself (or anyone else outside of the immediate area of Lytham St
Annes). I would ask you to reconsider your refusal.

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

Yours faithfully,

Matt White

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