Stonehaven action plan
Ganesh Sittampalam made this Rhyddid Gwybodaeth request to Aberdeenshire Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Aberdeenshire Council,
In an article in the Times this week, you are quoted as saying:
“Together with a range of community organisations, we have been looking at ways to improve the look of Stonehaven for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors.
"An action plan has been created in conjunction with the Stonehaven Town Partnership, Community Council, Stonehaven Business Association and the Horizon Group.
“As part of the action plan we have asked some owners in the area to consider making alterations to their properties. This included asking the owners of The Carron Fish Bar to consider removing their banner."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/sc...
Please could I have a copy of the action plan along with any letters to owners in the area requesting alterations to their properties?
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
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Dear Mr Ganesh Sittampalam
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Dear Aberdeenshire Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Aberdeenshire Council's handling of my FOI request 'Stonehaven action plan'.
You've redacted the names of businesses even where these are already in the public domain - for example, both "Carron Fish Bar" and "The Bay Fish and Chips" have spoken publicly about receiving the letters: http://www.mearnsleader.co.uk/news/local...
I don't think the argument about negative publicity can apply in circumstances where the businesses have already been named publicly and indeed appear to have chosen to draw attention to themselves.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
Dear Mr Sittampalam
I write to acknowledge receipt of your email of 25 August, 2015,
requesting a Review of the Council’s response to your FOI request.
I will refer your request to the Council’s Review Panel for consideration.
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with the decision of the Review Panel has to be sent by Tuesday, 22
September.
Yours sincerely
Alastair Nicol
Principal Committee Services Officer
Legal and Governance
Business Services
Aberdeenshire Council
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Aberdeen
AB16 5GB
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Dear Mr Sittampalam
I refer to your email of 25 August, 2015, requesting a Review of the
Council’s response to your FOI request.
The Review Panel has considered your appeal and I now enclose their
Decision Notice and Statement of Reasons.
Yours sincerely
Alastair Nicol
Principal Committee Services Officer
Legal and Governance
Business Services
Aberdeenshire Council
Woodhill House
Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB16 5GB
Tel: 01224 665109 (internal 725 5109)
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Dear Mr Sittampalam
I refer to the Scottish Information Commissioner's Decision Notice
113/2016. The attached information complies with that Decision Notice.
Yours sincerely
Alastair Nicol
Principal Committee Services Officer
Legal and Governance
Business Services
Aberdeenshire Council
Woodhill House
Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB16 5GB
Tel: 01224 665109 (internal 725 5109)
[mobile number]
Email: [1][email address]
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Gadawodd Ganesh Sittampalam anodiad ()
The Scottish ICO has ordered disclosure of significant parts of the withheld information, that seems to go beyond what I asked for in my internal review request, by 27th June 2016 in decision 113/2016, which should be published on her website in a week or so.
The decision states "The Commissioner is concerned that a good deal of the information the Council has attempted to withhold in this case relates to the Council itself. There would appear to be no reasonable basis for applying either of the exemptions claimed by the Council to this information. There would appear to be no obvious reason for withholding information of this kind, other than to protect the Council from possible embarrassment. The Commissioner would ask the Council to remember that this is not the purpose of FOISA."