Alcohol licensed premises

The request was refused by Kirklees Borough Council.

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Please find below a request for information under The Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please kindly note my accessibility request.

Details of Request:

Can you please provide the following details from the records which you hold under The Licensing Act 2003:-

A full list of all premises who are currently allowed to have the sale of alcohol on their premises. The list needs to contain the following:

• Premises Licence Number
• Date Issued
• Premises Licence Status
• Premises Name
• Premises Address
• Premises Postcode
• Premises Telephone Number
• Premises Category e.g. Cafe, Bar, Theatre, Nightclub
• Premises Licence Holder Name
• Premises Licence Holder Address
• Premises Licence Holder Postcode
• Designated Premises Supervisor Name
• Designated Premises Supervisor Address
• Designated Premises Supervisor Postcode

ACCESSIBILITY AND REQUESTED FORMAT

Due to visual requirements, I kindly ask that you don't provide links to databases. If this is essential( and it would be a huge help if it were not), please no database/ page links that are not Level AA conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0

Requested format:

Please provide the information in an Excel Spreadsheet format , preferably Microsoft Excel (*.xls). If you cannot supply the information in this format please can you explain why?

Thank you in advance for your help on this matter. Please feel free at any point to contact me to discuss my request further by reply e-mail.

Yours faithfully,

Patrick O'Neil

Freedom Info, Kirklees Borough Council

Dear Mr O'Neil

FoI 18853 - Alcohol licensed premises

I confirm receipt of your information request and that we are dealing with this and will respond to you in due course.

If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Requests for internal reviews should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer, 1st Floor, Civic Centre 3, Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EY. Alternatively, you can send an email to: [email address].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Act. The Information Commissioner’s website is at www.ico.org.uk and gives more information about the role and duties of the Commissioner. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Regards

Information Governance Team
The Democracy Service
Telephone: 01484 221000 (voice activated switchboard – please ask for Freedom of Information)

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Freedom Info, Kirklees Borough Council

Dear Mr O'Neil,

 

Further to your recent request for information relating to the above,
which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

You asked :

 

Can you please provide the following details from the records which you
hold under The Licensing Act 2003:-

 

A full list of all premises who are currently allowed to have the sale of
alcohol on their premises. The list needs to contain the following:

 

• Premises Licence Number

• Date Issued

• Premises Licence Status

• Premises Name

• Premises Address

• Premises Postcode

• Premises Telephone Number

• Premises Category e.g. Cafe, Bar, Theatre, Nightclub • Premises Licence
Holder Name • Premises Licence Holder Address • Premises Licence Holder
Postcode • Designated Premises Supervisor Name • Designated Premises
Supervisor Address • Designated Premises Supervisor Postcode

 

ACCESSIBILITY AND REQUESTED FORMAT

 

Due to visual requirements, I kindly ask that you don't provide links to
databases. If this is essential( and it would be a huge help if it were
not), please no database/ page links that are not Level AA conformance to
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0

 

Requested format:

 

Please provide the information in an Excel Spreadsheet format , preferably
Microsoft Excel (*.xls). If you cannot supply the information in this
format please can you explain why?

 

Please find the Council’s response below :

 

Under section 1(3) of the Act, a public authority need not comply with a
request unless any further information reasonably required to locate the
information is supplied.  If a request is too broad or general in nature,
then public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance to
the applicant in order to focus the request.  Although the Council cannot
answer your request as it currently stands, it might be able to answer a
refined request within the cost limit. You may wish to consider narrowing
the scope of your request, although please be aware that the Council
cannot guarantee at this stage that a refined request will fall within the
appropriate cost limit.

In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have
requested, would require staff to access each individual record, which
would take approximately 2 minutes per record. Therefore, the Council
would need to go through 1676 record, that would equate to over 55 hours.

 

Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public
authority to refuse a request if the cost of providing the information to
the applicant would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ as defined by the
Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees)
Regulations 2004:

 

12 Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit

(1) Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a
request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

(2) Subsection (1) does not exempt the public authority from its
obligation to comply with paragraph (a) of section 1(1) unless the
estimated cost of complying with that paragraph alone would exceed the
appropriate limit.

 

The Regulations provide that the appropriate limit to be applied to
requests received by local authorities is £450 (equivalent to 2.5 days (or
18 hours) of work).  In estimating the cost of complying with a request
for information, an authority can only take into account any reasonable
costs incurred in:

 

(a) determining whether it holds the information,
(b) locating the information, or a document which may contain the
information,
(c) retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the
information, and
(d) extracting the information from a document containing it.

 

For the purposes of the estimate the costs of performing these activities
should be estimated at a rate of £25 per hour.

 

The request for disclosure of the information is therefore refused under
section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

 

If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Requests for internal reviews should
be submitted within 2 months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer,
1st Floor, Civic Centre 3, Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EY. 
Alternatively, you can send an email to:
[email address]. 

 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right
under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt
with in accordance with the requirements of the Act.  The Information
Commissioner’s website is at www.ico.org.uk and gives more information
about the role and duties of the Commissioner.  The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Governance Team

The Democracy Service

Email: [email address]

Telephone: 01484 221000

 

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