Council assets

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To the information officer,

I am emailing to request the following information from the council under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

Note: This request does not relate to social housing stock

1) A list of building, land and heritage assets disposed of (i.e. the council no longer owned the asset) by the council between 2014/2015 and the date on which you received this request, including:

- Name of the asset
- What type of asset is it - building, land or heritage?
- Address (if applicable)
- Postcode (if applicable)
- UPRN (if possible)
- The date it was disposed of
- The type of disposal (for example sale, community asset transfer, etc)
- The valuation of the asset at the point it was classified as an asset held for sale (both lower amount and fair value less, if possible)
- How much it was sold for? (if applicable)
- Who it was sold to?
- How it was disposed of (open market, auction, etc)

2) A list of building, land and heritage assets acquired by the council between 2014/2015 and the date on which you received this request, including:

- Name of the asset
- What type of asset is it - building, land or heritage?
- Address
- Postcode
- UPRN (if possible)
- The date it was acquired
- Who was it acquired from?
- How much did it cost?
- Is it now classed as an investment property?

3) How many land, building and heritage assets did the council have as of
a) the beginning of 2014/15
b) the date on which you received this request

I would like to receive this information electronically a spreadsheet, with the points above as the column headers.

If the decision is made to withhold some of this information using exemptions in the Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.

Please note the questions:
Who it was sold to?
Who was it acquired from?

In response to test FOIs some local authorities declined to release this information relating to these questions, arguing it was exempt under Section 40 - Personal information.

The definition of personal data referred to in the FOIA is that used by the Data Protection Act. This states that, for data to constitute personal data, “it must relate to a living individual, and that individual must be identifiable”. As a result, unless the response relates to a person (or a sole trader) it cannot be exempt under Section 40.

If you need clarification please contact me at this email address. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way before the 20th working day.

I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Thank you for your time,

Gareth

Admin, CCC (SNC), South Northamptonshire District Council

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If you need to provide evidence or documents to support a Housing Benefit or
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The Customer Service Team

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Dear South Northamptonshire District Council,

I have not yet received a response to my FOI request, entitled Council Assets, dated 31 July 2018.
By law the council should have responded promptly and by 30 August 2018.
Could you provide an update as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Gareth Davies

Admin, CCC (SNC), South Northamptonshire District Council

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Customer Service Team will always try, wherever possible, to respond within two
working days.

 

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If you have contacted us with regards to your Council Tax, Business Rates or
Entitlements please note that the processing time can be up to 4 weeks, for all
documents received.

If you need to provide evidence or documents to support a Housing Benefit or
Council Tax Reduction claim you can scan the documents and email to:
[1][email address]

 

If you need to provide evidence or documents for Council Tax purposes (not
Council Tax Reduction) you can scan and email to:

[2][email address]

 

 

Please note that all face to face advice at the Forum is by appointment only.

 

Kind regards,

The Customer Service Team

[3]www.southnorthants.gov.uk

 

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Anne Riley,

Dear Mr Davies

 

Thank you for email of 31^st August 2018 regarding your overdue FOI.

Your request, numbered 101000976901 at South Northamptonshire Council, has
now been looked at by our legal department who unfortunately are
requesting some clarification on this FOI before being able to respond.

 

Clarification sought is :

 

1.       2014/2015   Can you confirm start and end dates – Do you mean
financial year? You also state ‘and the date on which you received this
request’ – So do you mean 2014/2015/2016/2017 to 1^st August 2018?

2.         Same as above

3.         Please clarify the beginning of 2014/2015 – 1^st January 2014?

 

Kind Regards,

 

Anne

 

Anne Riley

Information Governance Officer

Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Shared Legal Service

Direct Dial: 01327 322048

[1][email address]

 

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[3]www.southnorthants.gov.uk

 

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Ms Riley,

The period covered by all the request is 01/04/2014 to 1/08/2018.

You can disregard question 3, by the way.

Yours sincerely,

Gareth Davies

Anne Riley,

1 Attachment

Dear Mr Davies

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Reference 101000976901

 

Please accept our sincere apologies for not being able to respond within
the specified 20 days under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

 

Please find below the response to your request under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act.

 

Please see attached spreadsheet. Question 2 is a Nil result for South
Northamptonshire Council.

 

The Council endeavours to answer requests for information as fully and
accurately as possible. If you are not satisfied with this response, you
may request an internal review by contacting the Information Governance
Manager at South Northamptonshire Council, The Forum, Moat Lane, Towcester
NN12 6AD.  [1][email address] If following the
review you are still not satisfied with the Council’s response, you are
advised to contact the Information Commissioner directly at the
Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF or on [2][email address].

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Anne

 

Anne Riley

Information Governance Officer

Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Shared Legal Service

Direct Dial: 01327 322048

[3][email address]

 

[4]www.cherwell.gov.uk

[5]www.southnorthants.gov.uk

 

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[7]https://twitter.com/SNorthantsC

 

This e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and may
contain legally privileged information. You should not disclose its
contents to any other person. If you are not the intended recipient,
please notify the sender immediately.
Whilst the Council has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise the
risk of computer software viruses, it cannot accept liability for any
damage which you may sustain as a result of such viruses. You should carry
out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail(and/or any
attachments).
Unless expressly stated otherwise, the contents of this e-mail represent
only the views of the sender and does not impose any legal obligation upon
the Council or commit the Council to any course of action.

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2. mailto:[email address]
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7. https://twitter.com/SNorthantsC