Sale of University Assets

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Dear University of Edinburgh,

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

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Mr Mann,

 

Thank you for your email of 4 November 2019 requesting information about
the University’s assets.  I am writing to let you know that we have
received your request and will process it as soon as possible, by no later
than 2 December 2019. 

 

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

 

Best wishes,

 

Lorraine Orr

 

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh

Old College

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

 

Email: [2][email address]   

 

 

 

 

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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Dear Records Management,

Please can you update me on this overdue request?

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Mr Mann

We apologise for the delay in responding to your request for information. I can confirm that your request is being processed and we hope to send you a response by the end of next week at the latest.

Yours sincerely

Ann-Marie Noble
Information Compliance Manager
Records Management Section
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

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Dear Jamie Mann

 

Thank you for your email of 4 November 2019 requesting information about
the University’s assets. I apologise again for the delay in responding to
your request. Please find attached our response.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ann-Marie Noble

Information Compliance Manager

Records Management Section

University of Edinburgh

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

 

[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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Hi Ann,

Many thanks for this. For clarity, I was hoping for a list of any property and land assets sold by the university in the last five years. Please can you provide this in spreadsheet form?

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Jamie Mann
 
Thank you for your email of 16 December 2019 below requesting information
about all the property and land assets sold by the University in the last
five years. I am writing to let you know that we have received your
request and will process it as soon as reasonably possible, and within 20
working days of the day we received the request. We will reply by 13
January at the latest.
 
[1]The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes
how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your
request, is published on the University website.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Ann-Marie Noble
Information Compliance Manager
Records Management Section
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
 
[2]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management
 

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Dear Jamie Mann

 

Thank you for your email of 16 December 2019 requesting further
information about the University’s assets.  Please find our response
attached.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ann-Marie Noble

Information Compliance Manager

Records Management Section

University of Edinburgh

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

 

[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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Hi Ann-Marie,

Many thanks for your response. Please can you open an internal review into the withholding of the sale prices of the properties sold on Bilston Moor Road and Penicuik Road?

I believe this information to be in the public interest, particularly as these properties received public funding.

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Jamie Mann

 

Thank you for your email of 21 December 2019 requesting a review of our
response to your request about the sale of University assets.  I am
writing to let you know that we have received your request for a review
and will process it as soon as reasonably possible, and within 20 working
days of the day we received the request for review.  We will reply by 23
January 2020.

 

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/freedom-information/make-a-request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ann-Marie Noble

Information Compliance Manager

Records Management Section

University of Edinburgh

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

 

[2]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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Dear Jamie Mann

 

Thank you for your email of 21 December 2020 requesting a review of the
University’s handling of your request for information about the sale of
University assets.  Please find attached the University’s response.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ann-Marie Noble

Information Compliance Manager

Records Management Section

University of Edinburgh

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

 

[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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Received with thanks Ann-Marie,

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Hi Ann-Marie,

Please can you now reveal the sale price of the property at Bilston Road?

I'd also be grateful if you could share the full address for each sod property, but understand a new request may need to be opened to provide this.

Yours sincerely,

Jamie Mann

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Jamie Mann

Thank you for your email of the 17th December requesting information.

As explained in our acknowledgement message, the University's working
arrangements are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, I am
currently unable to tell you exactly when you will receive a response to
your request. However, I can confirm that it is actively being progressed
and that we are making all efforts to respond to your request promptly.
The [1]Scottish Information Commissioner's Office has issued a statement
about requests during the Covid-19 pandemic which you may find helpful.

If you are unhappy with the way the University has handled your request,
you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review
of the reasons for the delay. The [2]Scottish Information Commissioner's
guidance about this during the Covid-19 pandemic is available on their
website. If you wish to submit a review request you should write to the
Records Management Section (using this email address), describing the
original request, explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction, and
including an address for correspondence. When the review process is
complete, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the Scottish
Information Commissioner's guidance on making an appeal to make an appeal
to the Commissioner.

The [3]University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes
how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your
request, is published on the University website.

Yours sincerely

Carl Emery

Records Management

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Dear Jamie Mann

Thank you for your email of 17 December requesting information. Please
find the University's response attached.

Yours sincerely

Carl Emery

Records Management Section
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

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