Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In consideration of the request, which may be subject to any exemptions/
exceptions the Council may rely on to refuse the request, some of which
are absolute and some of which only apply where the public interest in
maintaining the exemption/exception outweighs that in disclosing the
information.

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.  If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice.  This
will detail the tasks involved in responding to the request, and
associated costs.  Further information is available on the EIR page of
Bedford Borough Council’s website at the following link:

[1]http://www.bedford.gov.uk/council_and_de...

Please note that once a response has been forwarded to you an anonymised
summary of all requests appear on the Bedford Borough website at the
following link:

[2]http://www.bedford.gov.uk/council_and_de...
Our current practise is that the information will be available to view on
the web for 2 years.

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][Bedford Borough Council request email] .

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’.  In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply service. 
If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions explaining how
to do this.

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Dear Mark Wilding

Request pursuant to Environmental Information Regulations Act 2004 –
Request No.14027

Thank you for your request for information concerning planning enforcement
notices, which we received on 24^th April 2019. Your request has been
considered under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

All information in relation to enforcement notices from 1957 to date is
publicly available on the authority’s website from the following link:
[1]www.bedford.gov.uk/searchplans   

Please refer to the How To Guides for assistance (see guidance in italics
below) and see the links to other planning pages (if required).

For your enquiry please also note the following:

The enforcement notices are all publicly available online at
[2]www.bedford.gov.uk/searchplans

You can search using the data base on the link TO VIEW AND COMMENT ON
APPLICATIONS once you have clicked on this link the system will open to an
ADVANCED SEARCH page,  please click on  'enforcements' (as the system will
automatically default to applications), wait for the screen to refresh and
then you can search using any of the criteria shown such as type of
enforcement notice, date issued etc. OR

You can view the entire enforcement notice register also from a link on
the search plans page more details are provided in How to Guide 3 in the
How to Guides section on the SEARCH plans page detailed above.

We do not issue informal warnings.

For example: How to Guide 2 explains how to find applications from 1995 to
date by address using the Map or by using a database where you can also
search by one or a selection of the following fields: development type,
application type, description of development keyword, Application status,
Agent, Committee date, Decision Date, Received or Validated Date, Parish,
Ward etc. You can also use the map or the database to find Enforcement
notices and Appeals detailed in the relevant how to guides.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.  For
further information regarding Re-use of Public Sector Information please
see the following link
[3]http://www.bedford.gov.uk/council_and_de...

If you are unhappy with the way the authority has handled your request,
you may ask for an internal review. Please contact Barbara Morris,
Assistant Chief Executive, (Law & Governance), email:
[4][email address] who will arrange an internal review of
your case.  Under Regulation 11(2) this needs to be done no later than 40
working days after the date of this letter.  If you are not content with
the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly
to the Information Commissioner for a decision.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

[5]www.ico.gov.uk          

Yours sincerely

Andrea Bechtle

FOI & EIR Officer - Environment & Enabling Services

Bedford Borough Council

Room 336, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK429AP

(01234) 718243 (ext 47243)
‘Bedford Borough Council - Working with our partners to make the borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

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