Title. Sale of Ashley Road/Lee Valley Technopark

The request was refused by Haringey Borough Council.

Dear Haringey Borough Council,

Ashley Road Technopark was purchased and sold on 27.3.15 by Haringey Council at a loss of £9million. Please provide all correspondence relating to this transaction between council officers, Harris Academy chain and elected members. Please provide copy of the council meeting which authorised this purchase and sale. Please provide documentary evidence that supports the evidence and rationale for this transaction.

Yours faithfully,

Hilary Adams

Haringey Borough Council

Dear Ms Adams

 

Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Request:
LBH/6223017

 

I acknowledge your request for information received on 25 April 2017.

 

This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
will send the response by 24 May 2017

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

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Dear Haringey Borough Council,

I am writing to remind you that this response is overdue and request that it be given urgent attention, thank you

Yours faithfully,

Hilary Adams

FOI, Haringey Borough Council

Dear Ms Adams,

 

I apologise for the delay in responding to your FOI request.

 

I have progress chased the Service  today asking them to respond to you as
soon as possible.

 

Regards,

 

Sirkku Pietikäinen

Information Governance Officer

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Dobson-Moore Marcia, Haringey Borough Council

Dear Ms. Adams,

Please accept our apology for the delay in our response, we aim to reply to by next Tuesday (6th).

Thank you for your patience.

Regards

Marcia Dobson-Moore
Strategic Property Unit
Regeneration, Planning & Development

Haringey Council
6th Floor, Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, London, N22 7TR

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Dear Haringey Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Haringey Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Title. Sale of Ashley Road/Lee Valley Technopark'.

The response is long overdue, my reminder led to a promise that it would be provided by 6th June now 10 days later still no infomation. Thank you in anticipation of your assistance.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...

Yours faithfully,

Hilary Adams

Dobson-Moore Marcia, Haringey Borough Council

Dear Ms. Adams,

 

Freedom of Information Act Request (ref: LBH/6223017)

Fees Notice

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 25 April 2017 in
which you ask for the following information:

 

Ashley Road Technopark was purchased and sold on 27.3.15 by Haringey
Council at a loss of £9million.  Please provide all correspondence
relating to this transaction between council officers, Harris Academy
chain and elected members.  Please provide copy of the council meeting
which authorised this purchase and sale.  Please provide documentary
evidence that supports the evidence and rationale for this transaction.

 

Please accept our apology for the inordinate delay in our reply.

 

My response is as follows:

 

The Sale of Technopark was to the Harris Federation however the
transaction was agreed between the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and the
Council rather than directly with the Harris Federation.

 

Since there is substantial correspondence between council officers, our
agents and the EFA’s agents, we have estimated that it will cost more than
the ‘appropriate limit’ to provide all the correspondence relating to this
transaction.

 

Section 12 of the Act allows public authorities to refuse requests for
information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the
appropriate limit, which for local government is set at £450. This
represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in
determining whether the department holds the information, locating,
retrieving and extracting the information.

 

In this instance, we have estimated that it will cost £712.00 to provide
you with the required information but the end cost is likely to be higher.
This amount is therefore over the appropriate limit as specified in the
regulations, and consequently we are not obliged by the Freedom of
Information Act to respond to your request; therefore we will not process
this element of your request.

 

The Cabinet decision authorising the acquisition and sale of the
Technopark was made in March 2015 and the Cabinet Report (January 2014)
can be found on the Council’s website – see link below.

[1]http://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/ieLis...

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Yours sincerely,

 

Neil Simon

Property Consultant

Strategic Property

Regeneration, Planning & Development

 

Haringey Council

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