Provide me dates and advertisement copy of its disposal of land at Church Streetand provide dates and details of when it was first notified of the potential fraud involving this land?

CEO Mr Newbold made this Freedom of Information request to Hastings Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Hastings Borough Council,
Muriel Matters House (formerly Aquila House)
Breeds Place
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 3UY

28th June 2017

Dear Information Officer.

Can the Council provide me all dates and advertisement copy of its disposal of land at Church Street (Part of Speckled Wood in Ore) and provide all dates and details of when it was first notified of the potential fraud involving this land?

Can you provide me details of other land which was disposed at this times?

Can you Provide details of the Instructing department for this Disposal of land?

Can you please break down these charges showing the amount and what they are in connection with?

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Yours faithfully,

CEO Mr Newbold

Information Officer, Hastings Borough Council

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07 Sep 2017
Our Reference: FOI218453
M Newbold The Information Officer
Hastings Borough Council
Address Not Supplied Aqulia House
Breeds Place
Hastings
TN34 3UY
Dear M Newbold

I refer to your recent request for information from this Authority
regarding Disposal of land at Church Street.  Our response is detailed
below:

I trust we have interpreted your request correctly, and this is the
information you required.

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Yours sincerely,

Lisa Greathead
Information Officer
Aquila House
Breeds Place
Hastings
TN34 3UY
01424 451066

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Subject: Disposal of land at Church Street

Details of Request:

Can the Council provide me all dates and advertisement copy of its
disposal of land at Church Street (Part of Speckled Wood in Ore) and
provide all dates and details of when it was first notified of the
potential fraud involving this land?

 

Can you provide me details of other land which was disposed at this times?

 

Can you Provide details of the Instructing department for this Disposal of
land?

 

Can you please break down these charges showing the amount and what they
are in connection with?

 

Please send me recorded information, which includes information held on
computers, in emails and in printed or handwritten documents as well as
images, video and audio recordings. This information should include all
meta files and metadata.

 

If this request is too wide or unclear, and you require a clarification, I
would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the
Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. (Section 16 /
Regulation 9).

 

If my request is denied in whole or in part, I ask that you justify all
deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I will also
expect you to release all non-exempt material. I reserve the right to
appeal your decision to withhold any information or to charge excessive
fees.

 

If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you
direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary?

 

Please confirm or deny whether the requested information is held (section
(Section 1(1)(a) and consider whether information should be provided under
section 1(1)(b), or whether it is subject to an exemption in Part II of
the Act.

 

If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of
breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the
confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be
treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed.

 

I would like the above information in relation to this request for
information to be provided to me as electronic copies, via WDTK. The
information should be immediately readable - and, as a freedom of
Information request, not put in a PDF or any closed form, which some
readers may not be able to access.

 

Response:

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

Q1 - Hastings Borough Council has not recieved any evidence of a potential
fraud therefore cannot investigated such a claim.

Please find attached the notice and plan which was advertised in the
Hastings Observer on 23 and 30 June 2017.

Q2 - Please advise which other land you are referring to?

Q3 - Estates Section

Q4 - Please advise what charges you are referring to?

 

End of Request

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