Dear Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council,

With regards to planning application 11/00200/FUL: Reports written in 2010 by ARUP regarding the SBCV scheme concluded that Asbestos was found in several areas of the development site. The report said that further testing needed to be conducted to established exactly how wide spread asbestos is in the soil of the development site.
Was this additional testing for asbestos conducted before soil was dug up for use in the infrastructure works?
Has any soil containing asbestos been removed from the development site?
Has a full risk assesment been written with regards to protecting workers from possible contact with asbestos?
Will any further asbestos testing be conducted before the development site is built on?

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Marsden

Dear Tracie Robinson,

Thank you for your reply, however you have failed to answer my first question which was. Has any soil containing asbestos been removed from the development
site?

Please could you supply this information ASAP as per my original FOI request.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Marsden

Dear Janet Morris,

Sorry for the delay in response. Please could you send a copy of the validation report to [email address] once it becomes available.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Marsden

Dear Janet Morris,

I have still not recieved a copy of the validation report in relation to this FOI. Please could you tell me when it will be made available.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Marsden

Dear Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Asbestos at the SBCV site'.

The council stated that a validation report would be available in due course. This was months ago and a report is still not available.

I believe that no such report has been written due to a lack of funding on this development project and that council officers have not told the truth by saying that this report existed.

It is my opinion that the site poses a hazard to the public and should be sealed off to the public as no evidence can be provided by the council to state otherwise.

If I do not obtain this report within two week I shall write a formal complaint both to the CEO of the council and the information commissioner.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/as...

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Marsden

Dear Tracie Robinson,

In my original response which was sent out in May it was stated
"In this instance the documents requested in your first two questions are currently being worked on and the final report will be published on the Council’s website in approximately two months’ time".

On no occasion has the council said that this report would not be available until after the remeadiation. In fact in reports conducted by Genr8 it states that a verification report would be available after the infrastructure works was completed (This was one in May).
I shall now be writing a formal letter of complaint to the councils CEO and to the information commissioner with regards to the fact that it has taken council officers so long to come to this conclusion.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Marsden