158 Purley Downs Road – ‘Invalid’ planning application 23-03646-NMA

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Dear Stephen Whiteside

Freedom of information request - FOI/12216

Subject: Freedom of Information request - 158 Purley Downs Road a€“
a€Invalida€™ planning application 23-036 46-NMA

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Bernard Weatherill House

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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
[email address]

Dear Stephen Whiteside

Request FOI/12216

Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004. Please accept our apologies for the delay in
responding to you.
Specifically, you have requested the following information:

“An application for non-material amendments to the consent granted under
21/01619/FUL and which would (following validation) be given the above
reference, was submitted (according to the Application Form) on or around
25 September 2023 (Planning Portal Reference: PP-12483254).

As shown on the Form, the amendments proposed included "Individual unit
bin stores for units 4-7 removed and relocated to communal bin store
within car parking area”.

I have been informed that the application was then deemed ‘invalid" on 6
December 2023 and consequently removed from the online register.

Please provide copies of the following information:
• all documents submitted as part of application 23-03646-NMA,
• the results of any (internal/external) consultation regarding this
application, including public representations and comments from the
Council"s Waste Management Team, and
• all correspondence with the applicant/agent regarding ‘invalidation",
including the reasons ‘for" as put forward by the Council and any
counter-argument from the applicant/agent”..

Please see attached.  We have removed names and contact details of
individuals as this would be disclosing personal data to you. The General
Data Protection Regulation 2018, renders such data exempt from disclosure
by virtue of Regulation 12(3) of the Environmental Information Regulations
2004 (“EIR”) read with the provisions of Regulation 13.

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.

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London Borough of Croydon
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Croydon CR0 1EA

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Croydon Council

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