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DEAR Paul Miller

Freedom of information request - FOI/8086

Subject: 12 The Ridge Way, South Croydon, CR2 0LE - Consultation

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of
any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20
working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable
depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases
you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be
indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with your request at the
earliest opportunity.

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notify you of this together with the reason(s) why, and details of how you
may appeal.

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information where we believe that the request is not significantly clear
for us to respond fully. 

Kind Regard

Information Management Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

7th Floor, Zone B

Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

Dear Paul Miller

Request FOI/8086

Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004. Specifically, you have requested the
following information:

“12 The Ridge Way, South Croydon, CR2 0LE - Consultation

Please provide COPIES of any information relating to consultations with
and/or comments by Thames Water regarding this development. This should
include (but not be restricted to) any that relate to pre-planning
applications by developers (or their agents) and any contact by the
approved inspector (Stroma) or local authority (LB Croydon), about
proposed foul and/or surface water discharge to a public sewer”.

Please find attached the requested information. Some information has been
redacted as it held information relating to individuals.  Personal data is
exempt from disclosure under Regulations 12(3) and 13 of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.

It is important to remember that when information is released under the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, it is considered released to
the wider public. Any such disclosure of personal information would not be
compliant with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations
2018.

The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. (Any request included within this log will be
anonymised appropriately)

To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website available
here:

[1]The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act | Croydon Council
(disclosure-log.co.uk)

If you are dissatisfied with the way the council has handled your request
under the Environmental Information Regulations you may ask for an
internal review.  This should be submitted to us within 40 working days of
this response.  You can do this by outlining the details of your complaint
by:

Email:        [2][Croydon Borough Council request email]

Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

7^th Floor - Zone B

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

Any requests received after the 40 working day time limit will be
considered only at the discretion of the council.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely 

Croydon Council

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Dear Paul Miller,

Further to your email dated 23 October 2023, in which you requested an
Internal Review of the Council’s response to your request for information
made under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), I have now
concluded this review and I am able to reply as follows.

In your request for Internal Review, you asked the Council to reconsider
your request as you believed that you had not been provided with the
information requested.

In your request for information dated 15 August 2023 you requested the
following information:

“Please provide COPIES of any information relating to consultations with
and/or comments by Thames Water regarding this development. This should
include (but not be restricted to) any that relate to pre-planning
applications by developers (or their agents) and any contact by the
approved inspector (Stroma) or local authority (LB Croydon), about
proposed foul and/or surface water discharge to a public sewer.

The information requested concerns property development and planning
information. This is information that relates to a measure affecting the
elements of the environment and is thus environmental information as
defined by Regulation 2(1) of the EIR.  The information provided should be
redacted ONLY as required by legislation. Please note, I do not challenge
the withholding of any personal names, email addresses and/or telephone
numbers etc that the information might contain.

The request relates to the building of a new property on a site that from
May 2022 has been owned by a limited company (RSJ Estate Development
Limited - Co.Reg.No.11222589). For the avoidance of doubt, RSJ Estate
Development Limited is NOT an identifiable individual for the purpose of
the GDPR.

We collectively as residents in the development have very serious concerns
that proper consultation may not be taking place with regard to these
matters and that 'conditions' recommended by Thames Water are NOT being
fully applied AND/OR enforced by the local planning authority. There
remains significant public interest to know that ALL the relevant checks
are being carried out by ALL relevant parties, to ensure that this
development along with others like it does not (individually or
cumulatively) exacerbate existing problems in the area, caused by
flooding.

By regulation 12(2), the authority must apply a presumption in favour of
disclosure, in both engaging exceptions and carrying out the public
interest test.”

The Council responded to you on the 12 September 2023 and provided the
following response:

“Please find attached the requested information. Some information has been
redacted as it held information relating to individuals.  Personal data is
exempt from disclosure under Regulations 12(3) and 13 of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.”

In your request for an Internal Review dated 23 October 2023, you stated
the following:

“I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's
handling of my FOI request '12 The Ridge Way, South Croydon, CR2 0LE -
Consultation'.

This is not all the information. Please provide all requested
information.”

On receiving your request for an Internal Review, I contacted the Head of
Development Management, Planning & Sustainable Regeneration following
which the Case Officer responsible for the application, has confirmed that
no other information is held in respect of your request.

If you are not content with the outcome of the Internal Review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Howard Passman

020 8726 6000 ext. 27103

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