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Matt White made this Freedom of Information request to Barrow in Furness Borough Council
The request was refused by Barrow in Furness Borough Council.
From: Matt White
28 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
From: Freedom of Information
Barrow in Furness Borough Council
29 July 2009
Please refer to the attached correspondence.
Kind Regards
Jane Holden
Corporate Services Officer
Town Hall, Duke Street
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria LA14 2LD
Tel: 01229 876452
Fax: 01229 876515
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From: Matt White
29 July 2009
Dear Jane,
I am writing to request an internal review of Barrow in Furness
Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Planning Applications
featuring Change of Use from A1'. Your ref: JH/FOI0966.
You have rejected the request as the information is 'reasonably
accessible'. There are a few points on which I would like to
dispute this:
1) Can you advise how to filter down to Change of Use from A1 on
the portal?
2) Can you advise how to search for Starbucks on the portal? Using
Specsavers as an example, they appear on one of the weekly lists,
but do not return on the search.
3) Can you advise how I would get the portal to go back over the
last 5 years? As per the website - "Only plans and notices on
applications submitted or decided since 2006 will be available to
view online."
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
From: Freedom of Information
Barrow in Furness Borough Council
30 July 2009
Morning
An acknowledgement in relation to your appeal is enclosed.
Kind regards
Jane Holden
Corporate Services Officer
Town Hall, Duke Street
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria LA14 2LD
Tel: 01229 876452
Fax: 01229 876515
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From: Jeff Bright
Barrow in Furness Borough Council
11 August 2009
I refer to your recent request for a review into a recent FOI decision
made by this Council and enclose my response.
Jeff Bright
Assistant Director (Personnel & Performance)
Barrow Borough Council
Tel no : 01229 876334
Barrow Borough Council - Enhancing the economic and social future
of the Borough.
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From: Matt White
11 August 2009
Dear Jeff,
Thanks for the reply, hadn't actually noticed the "type of
applications" link previously. Couple of questions relating though:
1) 67/ is changes to A1. Could you let me know the code for changes
from A1?
2) Searching by street doesn't really work, I don't know the
address - I'm looking for any Starbucks COU from A1.
3) Is there any way to get the results for B20/ in an Excel format?
Make it a lot easier to work with.
Yours sincerely,
Matt White
From: Robin Gawlik
Barrow in Furness Borough Council
12 August 2009
Mr White
I have been asked to respond to your questions please find below your
questions with my answers I hope this helps. I will not be in after
today, till September as I am on annual leave, so if you have any
further questions can you pelase re-direct them to Jeff Bright.
1) 67/ is changes to A1. Could you let me know the code for changes
from A1?
A. Sorry the older application types only reflect a change of use too a
use clase not from,so we have no way of electronically extracting this
information. To find these would mean manually checking every
application which would be time consuming.
2) Searching by street doesn't really work, I don't know
the address - I'm looking for any Starbucks COU from A1.
A. The only way to search for this would be if the applicant was
starbucks, this can be done by simply searching on "Star" for instance
in the applicant name.
3) Is there any way to get the results for B20/ in an Excel format? Make
it a lot easier to work with.
A. When I cehcked this morning there are only 45 B20/ type applications
listed on the public access portal when you search under B20/ it is
possible for you to copy and paste these these into an excel spreadsheet
quite easily.
Robin Gawlik
GIS and Information Officer
Barrow Borough Council
01229 876533
Barrow Borough Council - Enhancing the economic and social future
of the Borough.
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