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]

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Dear David White

Freedom of information request - FOI/9393

Subject: FOI - 34A+34B Arkwright Road (23/03465/FUL) - Consultation Scope
and Consultee Comments

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.

If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will
notify you of this together with the reason(s) why, and details of how you
may appeal.

Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further
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 David White

Request FOI/9393

Further to your request received on 28/02/2024, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Environmental Information
Regulations. Specifically, you have requested the following information:

"Please provide COPIES of ALL information regarding [internal and
external] consultation on the above planning application and ALL comments
provided by consultees [statutory or otherwise], including but not
restricted to correspondence with the following :

+ Spatial Planning
    + Transportation Team
    + Highways Development (as the Highway Authority, with regard to
    the safety of all highway users)
    + Tree Team
    + Building Control
    + Ecology Advice Comments Request Team
    + Lead Local Flood Authority
    + Thames Water
    + Ward Councillors

Please note, I am requesting COPIES of each set of comments, NOT a
compilation of the comments received.

Full justification should be provided for the redaction (or
non-disclosure) of any author's name etc."

Please find requested documents attached.

Certain names, identities and direct contact details of third
party individuals on these attachments have been redacted, as this would
be disclosing personal data to you; withholding of personal data as
defined by Regulation 12 (3) and 13 of the Environmental Information
Regulations. 

Regulation 12(3) says:
(3) To the extent that the information requested includes personal data
which the applicant is not the data subject shall not be disclosed
otherwise than in accordance with regulation 13

Regulation 13 says:
13 – (1) To the extent that the information requested includes personal
data to which the applicant is not the data subject and as respects which
either the first or second condition is satisfied, a public authority
shall not disclose the personal data.

Furthermore, the first data protection principle states processing of data
should be fair and lawful. As there is no expectation to release junior
council officer’s identities into the public domain unnecessarily and
where these officers are not considered to be key decision makers in
respect of this case, we are satisfied in this case that such information
should be redacted.

It is important to remember that when information is released under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 & the EIR (2004), it is considered
released to the wider public. The First data protection principle states
processing of data must be fair and lawful and thus in this case we have
decided to withhold personal names. Any such disclosure of personal
information would not be compliant with the provisions of the Data
Protection Act 2018 and the First data protection principle. 

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

Floor 7 - 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,

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

[3][Croydon Borough Council request email]

[4][email address]

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