Dear Sir / Madam

REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 / ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS
2004

The Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council was formed under the Local
Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 effective 1 April 2015 and replaces
the former councils of Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady Borough Councils
and Moyle District Council.  Requests made to the legacy councils since 1
April 2015 are being handled by the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough
Council and duplicate requests made to the legacy councils are being
treated as one request. 

Council acknowledges your request for information under the above
legislation and will process your personal data, provided as part of this
request i.e. name and contact details as part of its legal obligation. 
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) or the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) (as appropriate), subject to the
information not being exempt, containing reference to a third party or
other provisions within the legislation. 

If any of the exemption categories apply, the information will not be
released and you will be informed of this, including your rights of
appeal.  Where a public interest test is required, Council will inform you
if the 20 day time scale has to be extended. 

Where information requested contains reference to a third party, they may
be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to release
the information and you will be informed where appropriate. 

There may be a fee payable for this information.  For requests under FOIA,
Council will not normally charge unless the cost of responding exceeds
£450 based on £25 per hour.  Where applicable, the council can choose to
either decline to respond to the request, or to do so only after payment
of a fee.  Under the EIR, (subject to legislative exemptions) Council will
normally charge a fee for complying with requests for information based on
a fee of £25 per hour. Where a Fees Notice has been issued and no payment
received within three months of issue, the Council will consider the
request closed.  Further information about charges for environmental
information is available at:
[1]https://www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk...

Council will endeavour to provide information in the format requested. 
However if it is not practicable or it is unreasonable to do so, it will
likely be provided in pdf format.  A disbursement fee may be applied and
any fees must be paid before the information is released. 

Council will not respond to correspondence that has been copied to us.

If you have any queries about the process, please do not hesitate to
contact me.  A leaflet entitled “The Right to Know” is available in all
main Council Offices and from the website which may answer your queries. 
Please include the above reference number on all correspondence related to
this request.

For further information regarding your privacy rights or for how long we
hold your data, please refer to the privacy section of the website:
[2]www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk/footer-information/privacy-statement.

Please note that replies are subject to release under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Personal details, where applicable, will be removed
to protect confidentiality.

Yours faithfully

Romana Khaoury

Information Governance Officer

Email: [3][email address]

[4]Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council             

[5]www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk

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Dear Sir / Madam

REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

With reference to your request for information held by Causeway Coast and
Glens Borough Council under the above legislation.  

Response:

The Council has undertaken a search of its records and failed to locate
any relevant records to your request based on the information you have
provided.  Accordingly Council can confirm that it does not hold the
information to which you seek access. 

Under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act which places a duty on
public authorities “to provide advice and assistance” this maybe because
local authorities in Northern Ireland do not have legislative
responsibility for housing or homelessness.  For further information see:
[1]http://www.nihe.gov.uk/index/advice/home...

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is the Regional Strategic Housing
Authority for Northern Ireland and The Department for Communities is the
sponsoring department for the Housing Executive.  

You may want to contact the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for further
assistance.  They can be contacted at:

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

The Records Officer,  5th Floor

The Housing Centre

2 Adelaide Street

Belfast BT2 8PB

E-mail:            [2][email address]

For further guidance on the [3]role of local authorities within Northern
Ireland and other statutory partners please refer to Northern Ireland’s
one stop government portal: [4]NIDirect. 

If you have any queries in relation to your request for access to
information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Individuals are free to use any information supplied, where the Council is
the copyright owner of the information, for their own use, including for
non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for the
purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, such as:
copying, publishing, distributing and transmitting the Information;
adapting the Information; exploiting the Information commercially for
example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in
your own commercial product or application, will be subject to the
copyright and re-use conditions under the Open Government Licence.

If you are dissatisfied with how the Council handled your request for
information, you have the right to request that the Council formally
review this decision.  If you wish to do so, please write within 40
working days to the:

Chief Executive

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

Cloonavin

66 Portstewart Road

Coleraine, BT52 1EY.

Should you remain dissatisfied following the Council’s internal review,
you can seek an independent review from the Information Commission.  A
request for an independent review should be made in writing to:
Information Commissioner at ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.  The Commissioner has indicated that a review will not
be undertaken unless the Council has first had an opportunity to
reconsider its decision.

Please be advised that under the Freedom of Information Act, replies
including the request may be released into the public domain via our
website [5]www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk.  Personal details in respect
of your request will, where applicable, be removed to protect
confidentiality.

Council will process your personal data, provided as part of this request
i.e. name and contact details as part of its legal obligation.  For
further information regarding your privacy rights or for how long we hold
your data, please refer to the privacy section of the website:
[6]www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk/footer-information/privacy-statement.

Yours sincerely

Romana Khaoury

Information Governance Officer

Email: [7][email address]

[8]Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

[9]www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk

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