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2011-14 Grants
Response
by Homes and Communities Agency to J A Giggins on 14 February 2012.
Awaiting classification.
Dear Ms Giggins
Please find attached a letter detailing the outcome of the Internal Review
in relation to your request.
Kind Regards...
License application in respect of certain European protected species
Partially successful.
by Natural England to J A Giggins on 10 February 2012.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Giggins
Please find attached Natural England formal acknowledgement of you request for information.
Regards
Kate Donovan
Adviser
Customer...
Discharge of conditions
Awaiting internal review.
by West Berkshire Council to J A Giggins on 31 January 2012.
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Mrs Giggins,
That would be useful - thank you.
Yours sincerely
Sue Broughton
Information Management Officer
Policy & Communication
*...
Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion and associated documentation
Follow up
sent to West Berkshire Council by J A Giggins on 25 January 2012.
Refused.
Many thanks for your letter. I trust you have copied it to the ICO as requested by the Case Officer who referred.the complaint back to the Council....
S106 Developer Contributions
Successful.
by West Berkshire Council to J A Giggins on 30 December 2011.
Successful.
FoI/2011/731
Dear Mrs Giggins
Request for information: S106 payments
We have now obtained the information to respond to your request. You
have aske...
Exra Care facility in Hungerford and 'Putting People First' Programme
Partially successful.
The ICO decision notice can be found here:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2011/fs_50384998.ashx
WBC have already provided t...
Minutes of closed meeting before Western Area Planning Committee Meeting 17th November 2010
Partially successful.
The ICO have now completed their investigation, and decided in WBC's favour, ie that on the balance of probabilities the data is not held.
http://www...
Communications with Natural England regarding grant allocations to Sovereign Housing for the redevelopment of the Priory and Platt Court in Hungerford
Partially successful.
by Homes and Communities Agency to J A Giggins on 12 December 2011.
Partially successful.
I am out of the office until Friday 16 December 2011. I will not have access to my emails during this time.
If you wish to make a new request for in...
Cost awards if a stopping up order is decided by a Public Enquiry
Partially successful.
by Department for Transport to J A Giggins on 3 November 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mrs Giggins,
Reference number F0008196
Thank you for your information request of 7 October 2011. You requested
the following inform...
Maintenance and development costs for the Priory and Platt Court in Hungerford
Internal review request
sent to Sovereign South+West by J A Giggins on 11 September 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
I am in receipt of David W Ingram's response dated 10th August 2011, sent by post to my home address.
I would be grateful if an electronic copy o...
Members Planning training
Partially successful.
The relevant point to note from this reply is that the session does not appear to have covered the matters that led to an urgent training update on 17...
Use of Compulsory Purchase Order powers under Section 17 of the Housing Act
Follow up
sent to West Berkshire Council by J A Giggins on 5 July 2011.
Partially successful.
Thank you for clarifying the situation.
Whilst the particular paragraph that you have extracted is clear, the content of the remainder of the let...
Use of Compulsory Purchase Order powers under Section 17 of the Housing Act
Successful.
by Department for Communities and Local Government to J A Giggins on 21 June 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mrs Giggins,
I now attach a letter giving a substantive reply to your FOI request.
Robert Segall
Team Leader
Planning - Development Management...
Documentation preceding Alan Law's request for a planning briefing
Follow up
sent to West Berkshire Council by J A Giggins on 13 June 2011.
Partially successful.
Many apologies.
As stated at the beginning of the request, these queries followed on from a previous request:-
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/re...
Berkshire Local Investment Plan - inclusion of The Priory/Platt Court in Hungerford
Partially successful.
by Bracknell Forest Borough Council to J A Giggins on 10 June 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Giggins
Thank you for your email dated 7 June.
As stated in my response I reviewed the handling of your request for information. The documen...
Grants in the South East and in particular those made to Sovereign Housing Group/Development Consortium
Partially successful.
by Homes and Communities Agency to J A Giggins on 26 May 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Giggins
Thank you for your email, addressed to my colleague, Catherine Talbot.
I can confirm that Catherine's response to your query w...
Grants to Sovereign Housing for developments in West Berkshire
Partially successful.
by Homes and Communities Agency to J A Giggins on 23 May 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Giggins
Please find attached our response to the Internal Review, RFI:3815-11.
I am communicating this to you on behalf of my colleagu...
West Berkshire's request to take the place of Liverpool in the Big Society pilot scheme
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 19 May 2011.
Partially successful.
I think the email from Graham Jones (Leader of West Berkshire Council) to Alan Law (Portfolio Holder for Housing & Planning) published in response to...
Sovereign Housing Inspection Report
Partially successful.
by Tenant Services Authority to J A Giggins on 28 April 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Giggins
I write in response to your Freedom of Information request of 29 March.
You have requested the following:
Electronic copies of,...
Financing for Hungerford Footbridge
Partially successful.
by West Berkshire Council to J A Giggins on 30 March 2011.
Partially successful.
FoI/2011/177
Dear Mrs Giggins,
Request for information: Financing for Hungerford Footbridge
We have now collated the information to respond to your...
S106 contributions and spend in Hungerford
Follow up
sent to West Berkshire Council by J A Giggins on 10 December 2010.
Partially successful.
Many thanks for this information, and for confirmation that West Berkshire Council is intending to use s106 Housing Contributions from other develo...
Sovereign Housing Inspection Report
Information not held.
by Audit Commission to J A Giggins on 1 December 2010.
Information not held.
Please find attached a response to your request for infomation.
Regards
Ben
Ben Taylor
National Lead - Housing and Economic Development Resource...
Clarification of new policy to prevent garden grabbing
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 14 November 2010.
Successful.
The application number is 10/01928/FULEXT: Demolition of existing buildings: redevelopment to provide 74 residential apartments (use class C3) for per...
Affordable housing need and supply in Hungerford particularly in relation to the Priory/Platt Court
Partially successful.
by West Berkshire Council to J A Giggins on 28 October 2010.
Partially successful.
Dear Mrs Giggins,
Thank you for confirming that you have received both responses.
We have supplied information on how to approach the Information
C...
Planning rule of thumb and code of conduct
Follow up
sent to South Oxfordshire District Council by J A Giggins on 24 August 2010.
Successful.
Many thanks for clarifying that South Oxfordshire District Council does not have a standard rule of thumb of acceptance of windows 10.5m from bound...
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Exra Care facility in Hungerford and 'Putting People First' Programme
Partially successful.
The ICO decision notice can be found here:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2011/fs_50384998.ashx
WBC have already provided t...
Minutes of closed meeting before Western Area Planning Committee Meeting 17th November 2010
Partially successful.
The ICO have now completed their investigation, and decided in WBC's favour, ie that on the balance of probabilities the data is not held.
http://www...
Communications with Natural England regarding grant allocations to Sovereign Housing for the redevelopment of the Priory and Platt Court in Hungerford
Request to Homes and Communities Agency by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 12 December 2011.
Partially successful.
For ease of reference I have copied in the response in the attachment below:
12 December 2011
Dear Ms Giggins
Request for Information
Thank yo...
2011-14 Grants
Request to Homes and Communities Agency by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 1 November 2011.
Awaiting classification.
Despite Sovereign apparently not applying for HCA funding for this scheme, and the "risk" of not being able to build the scheme without the funding, a...
I have now referred this complaint to the ICO as follows:-
My request has been refused under s14 because I have been classed as a “vexatious request...
This last link works!
The case referred to above is EA/2011/0079 Alan Dransfield v Information Commissioner on appeal from the Information Commissioner’s decision
No FS503...
Members Planning training
Partially successful.
The relevant point to note from this reply is that the session does not appear to have covered the matters that led to an urgent training update on 17...
Minutes of closed meeting before Western Area Planning Committee Meeting 17th November 2010
Partially successful.
I have now taken this request to the FOI Commissioner as follows:-
Full details of my FOI request can be found on whatdotheyknow.com
http://www.what...
West Berkshire's request to take the place of Liverpool in the Big Society pilot scheme
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 19 May 2011.
Partially successful.
I think the email from Graham Jones (Leader of West Berkshire Council) to Alan Law (Portfolio Holder for Housing & Planning) published in response to...
Minutes of closed meeting before Western Area Planning Committee Meeting 17th November 2010
Partially successful.
Follow up request:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/documentation_preceding_alan_law#outgoing-127152
The previous email in the string was from...
Documentation preceding Alan Law's request for a planning briefing
Partially successful.
The previous email in the string (provided as an attachment) was from Graham Jones (Leader of the Council) to Alan Law (Portfolio Holder for Housing &...
Minutes of closed meeting before Western Area Planning Committee Meeting 17th November 2010
Partially successful.
I have pasted the content of the latest response below, so as to maintain the flow of the request.
FoI Request: Training sessions on 10th and 17th N...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
Partially successful.
PS This is the comment I am referring to, copied from your internal review request:
Finally, I am sure you are aware that 'the Information Commissio...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
Partially successful.
Watching this with great interest. Well done Pauline!
Would you able to provide a link to the source of your comments re the public interest tests app...
Monitoring Officer Reports
Request to Cotswold District Council by Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS. Annotated by J A Giggins on 2 December 2010.
Long overdue.
Thankyou for posting this Stuart - I have a similar theme running with West Berkshire Council and will be putting in a similar request to them, as wel...
Maintenance and development costs for the Priory and Platt Court in Hungerford
Awaiting internal review.
The correct planning application number is 10/01928/FULEXT, and is due to be considered by West Berkshire District Council's Western Area Planning Com...
Clarification of new policy to prevent garden grabbing
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 14 November 2010.
Successful.
The application number is 10/01928/FULEXT: Demolition of existing buildings: redevelopment to provide 74 residential apartments (use class C3) for per...
Clarification of new policy to prevent garden grabbing
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by J A Giggins. Annotated by J A Giggins on 14 November 2010.
Successful.
I raised this question as this exact situation has arisen on a Planning Application in Hungerford, West Bershire. The applicants are Sovereign Housing...
Application - APP/D0650/A/10/2121435
Partially successful.
Have the Planning Inspectorate breached the Data Protection Act by publishing the requestor's address on this site?
Provision of Document
Successful.
Hi Keith
I had a similar response from Hilary Pook when I made a FOI request for a copy of an e-mail from to LGO to West Berkshire Council relating t...
Planning rule of thumb and code of conduct
Successful.
This 'rule of thumb' was used by the Local Government Ombudsman as a deciding factor when considering a planning complaint against West Berkshire Coun...
Complaints about the Local Government Ombudsman
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by Trevor R Nunn. Annotated by J A Giggins on 31 July 2010.
Information not held.
I'd like to know too! Maybe you could conduct a survey on the Ombudsmanwatch web site as to how many people have written a letter of complaint about t...
Details of Section 106 Agreement conditions Pertaining to 2001 Planning Permission for the Vodafone HQ
Successful.
I don't think the issue here is the cost, or the technological capability which I am sure the Council has,it's the fact that an electronic/scanned cop...
Details of Section 106 Agreement conditions Pertaining to 2001 Planning Permission for the Vodafone HQ
Successful.
Surely West Berkshire Council has a photocopier that can also scan in and produce electronic copies of documents?
The reluctance that is being shown t...
