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Dear Medway Council,

I would like some information in regards to deangate golf ridge and works undertaken in recent months. More specifically:

How was the decision to undertake the recent maintenance works at Deangate golf ridge made.

Who made this decision?

How much was spent on the recent maintenance works at deangate golf ridge.

And how was this funded?

Yours faithfully,

Miss K Singleton

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Thank you

Kayleigh Williams
Information Governance Apprentice
Medway Council
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR
www.medway.gov.uk
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Good Afternoon

Medway Council has received a large volume of requests for information
relating to Deangate Ridge Golf Club and Sports Complex and many of these
requests ask the same or similar questions.  We have therefore decided to
aggregate these requests and will publish the responses on our website.

Section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides an exemption
for information that is intended to be published at some future date,
Section 22 is a qualified exemption and we therefore have to consider
whether the public interest test in maintaining the exemption. Medway
Council accepts that there is a public interest in releasing this
information due to the interest in the council’s use of public funds and
resources. However, the council also has a responsibility to use its
resources efficiently and providing a response to each request for
information individually would place an undue burden on the council’s
resources. Aggregation of the requests and publication of one response
will allow the council to address all of the requests as one and as such
reduce the burden on the council’s resources and in turn the public purse.

Therefore, the council believes it is in the public interest to provide
this information as a whole and will publish the information on its
website on or before 16 March 2018.

 

Information Governance Team

Medway Council Legal Services

Gun Wharf, Dock Road

Chatham

Kent

ME4 4TR

 

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Richard Taylor left an annotation ()

I don't think this is how the exemption in Section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act is supposed to be applied. The exemption applies to information a public body was already planning to publish prior to the request:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...