Net additions of housing inside the City of London.

The request was refused by City of London Corporation.

Dear City of London Corporation,

Please provide an annual (1980-2019) breakdown for housing additions inside the City of London's boundary, by sector (LA, HA, PRS), type of addition (new build, conversion...etc), and rent ( Market, Affordable rents, Social rents).

Yours faithfully,

Abdullah A

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

Dear Abdullah A,

Thank you for your request, below, of 8 November 2019 to the City of London (CoL). In order that we respond to your request correctly we would like you to confirm your full real name.

Name of Applicant

Please note that section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states as follows:

"8.—(1) In this Act any reference to a 'request for information' is a Request for reference to such a request which— … (b) states the name of the applicant …"

For further guidance, please see the guidance “Recognising a request made under the Freedom of Information Act (Section 8)” (version 1.2, 2 Nov 2016), published on the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui...

You will see that the ICO states that “the intention of the legislation is for the requester to provide their real name”, and that “the absence of a real name would make it technically invalid under Section 8(1)(b)” of the FOIA.

The CoL would like confirmation of your full real name.

Please note that the ICO states in “The Guide to Freedom of Information” (version 4.9, 14 Aug 2017), that “…you [the authority receiving the request] may decide to check [an applicant’s] identity if it is clear they are using a pseudonym”. We reserve the right to do this should we consider that a pseudonym is being used.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear COL-EB-InformationOfficer,
Name of Applicant: Abdullah Ahmed

Yours sincerely,

Abdullah A

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

Dear Abdullah Ahmed,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 8 November 2019 and clarification of the same date that your full name is Abdullah Ahmed.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request, or any subsequent clarification. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (Explore the City), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear COL-EB-InformationOfficer,

The intended scope of my request is the 'Square Mile'. I am requesting an annual (1980-2019) breakdown for housing additions by the Corporation inside the Square Mile as opposed to additions outside the City boundary.

Yours sincerely,

Abdullah A

DCS FOI, City of London Corporation

Dear Mr Ahmed,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 8 November and our
acknowledgement of the 11 November, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

Your Request:

Please provide an annual (1980-2019) breakdown for housing additions
inside the City of London's boundary, by sector (LA, HA, PRS), type of
addition (new build, conversion...etc), and rent (Market, Affordable
rents, Social rents).

 

In accordance with section 17 of the FOIA, this response acts as a refusal
notice.  In accordance with section 1(1)(a) of the FOIA the CoL confirms
that it would hold information relevant to the request. However, it
estimates that to comply with the request would exceed the cost/time
allowed for in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate
Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 (made under section 12 of the FOIA),
called (as you may know) the 'appropriate limit', of £450, representing 18
hours work by one person equivalent.

 

In accordance with the Regulations, an authority is allowed to take into
account, in calculating the estimate, the time taken in -

 

(a) determining whether it holds the information,

(b) locating the information,

(c) retrieving the information, and

(d) extracting the information from a document containing it."

 

For clarification, point (d) relates to the time taken to extract
information from information which has not been requested.

 

In accordance with the Information Tribunal’s Decision Notice ref:
EA/2006/0085, which makes reference to calculation of estimates and
compiling the information, the CoL also considers the description covers
compiling the information, in so far as it can be said that the
information does not technically exist until it is compiled.

 

Public authorities are not required to comply with requests which it is
estimated may exceed the appropriate limit.  Where they do comply, they
are allowed to charge the full permitted cost. For resource reasons, it is
the practice of the CoL not to comply with requests which exceed the
appropriate limit.

 

Please note, too, that the Commissioner has stated (FS 50353495) that:
“Section 12 of the Act provides an exclusion from complying with a
request. It is not subject to a public interest test”.

 

Local Authorities are required to submit annual statistical returns to
Government on housing supply, you may wish to visit the Ministry of
Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) website, as much of the
information you require may be available at that location:
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistica...
You may also find useful information at the following link:
[2]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services...

 

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[3][email address]. For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's Complaints Procedure,
you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information Commissioner
to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone: (01625) 545 700.
Website: [5]www.ico.org.uk.

 

Please note that the FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police
authority and port health authority.

 

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

 

Please note that this email address is not monitored – please direct
further requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act
to [6][email address]

Yours sincerely

 

Administrative Assistant

Housing & Neighbourhoods
Department of Community and Children's Services
[7]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

0207 606 3030

 

 

 

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