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Sale of College Assets

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Dear SRUC,

1) Please provide me with a list of all the publicly-owned assets that your institution has sold in the previous five years, in Excel spreadsheet form.

Please include the criteria included in Edinburgh City Council's Asset Register: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi...

For each sold asset, please also include:

–The sale price
–The buyer
–The date of sale

2) Please provide me with a list if all all the assets currently owned by your institution in the same format (or please provide a link if publicly available).

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Mann

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Dear Jamie

I refer to your below email which is being treated as a request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. SRUC is a Scotland-wide institution with 3 campuses, various consulting offices, farms, land, etc. and therefore compiling the information you have requested is a large and time consuming task. I have been asked to request an extension to the due date for reply. Would you be open to a due date of Monday 16th December (approx. 2 week extension)?

Kind regards
Devon

Devon Taylor
Assistant Company Secretary
SRUC, Peter Wilson Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG
T. 0131 535 4129 E. [email address]
Working hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs

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Hi Devon,

Thanks for letting me know. No problem if you need more time. If it makes it easier, I am interested in land and property, so please focus only on land and property assets.

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office and will reply
to emails on my return.  

 

Please note my working hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

 

Kind regards

Devon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Devon Taylor, SRUC

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Dear Jamie

I refer to your below email which has been treated as a request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Thank you for granting us an extension to the 16th December.

Our response is attached in Excel spreadsheet format. The spreadsheet includes public sales over the last 5 years and current asset holdings. The sale price and buyer can be obtained from the Land Registry - exemption 25(1). Private sales have not been included under exemption 38(1)b.

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Kind regards
Devon

Devon Taylor
Assistant Company Secretary
SRUC, Peter Wilson Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG
T. 0131 535 4129 E. [email address]
Working hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs

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Hi Devon,

Many thanks for this. Please can you open an internal review into the council's refusal to share thebuyer and sale price information? Other public bodies have shared the equivalent information I requested. I would be grateful if SRUC could do the same.

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office and will reply
to emails on my return.  

 

Please note my working hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

 

Kind regards

Devon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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address to which it has been addressed. If the message has been received
by you in error, it may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than
the intended addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If it is not
intended for you please inform us, immediately, then delete it from your
system. If the content is not about the business of the organisation then
the message is not from us nor is it sanctioned by us. Anything in this
e-mail or its attachments which does not relate to SRUC's or SAC
Commercial Limited's official business is neither given nor endorsed by
SRUC or SAC Commercial Limited.

SRUC
A Charitable company limited by guarantee, Scottish Charity Number:
SC003712.
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC103046 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG
SAC Commercial Limited, an SRUC company
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC148684 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG

Hi Devon,

Please can you advise on the above?

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Mann

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Hi Jamie

We have reviewed our response and assessed the level of work required to provide the full information requested. We have also discussed it with our legal advisers.

It would be an extraordinary amount of work for our Property Manager to pull all the information together on the spreadsheet during a busy time of year and while we are undergoing an organisational change strategy which requires full attention. Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 exempts information from disclosure where the requester can reasonably obtain the information without asking for it under FOISA. Information might be exempt under section 25 even if a payment has to be made for it. The information you request is available from the Land Register of Scotland and therefore we maintain that exception 25 is applicable. The following link explains how to search the land register and obtain documents - https://www.ros.gov.uk/our-registers/lan....

Kind regards
Devon

Devon Taylor
Assistant Company Secretary
SRUC, Peter Wilson Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG
T. 0131 535 4129   E. [email address]
Working hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs

SRUC: Leading the way in Agricultural and Rural Research, Education and Consultancy.
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Many thanks for your response Devon,

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Thank you for your email. I am now out of the office returning on 9th
January.

 

Kind regards

Devon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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address to which it has been addressed. If the message has been received
by you in error, it may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than
the intended addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If it is not
intended for you please inform us, immediately, then delete it from your
system. If the content is not about the business of the organisation then
the message is not from us nor is it sanctioned by us. Anything in this
e-mail or its attachments which does not relate to SRUC's or SAC
Commercial Limited's official business is neither given nor endorsed by
SRUC or SAC Commercial Limited.

SRUC
A Charitable company limited by guarantee, Scottish Charity Number:
SC003712.
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC103046 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG
SAC Commercial Limited, an SRUC company
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC148684 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG

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