Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:
https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply service.
If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions explaining how
to do this.

Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

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Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request
No. RFI-02507

Thank you for your recent enquiry for information held by the Council.

Unfortunately we are unable to process your request as we have
insufficient detail from you to identify the information you require.

You requested:

Please share all information held on meetings and correspondence with
Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms since January 2022.

Could you please provide additional details regarding the nature of your
request? Could you please clarify the following:

• Could you confirm the relevant service area of Bedford Borough Council
involved in the meetings and correspondence.

• What is the specific subject of the communications you refer to.

When we have received your response, we will contact you again to provide
details of when you might expect to receive the information from us.

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [1][email address].

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

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Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request
No. RFI-02507

Thank you for your email clarifying your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.  We will now proceed with the request. 
It is our intention to have the information delivered to you by 18 October
2024.

The request is subject to any exemption which the Council may rely on to
refuse the request, some of which are absolute and some of which only
apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs
that in disclosing the information.

Once the information has been identified, the Council may also ask that a
fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Please note that once a response has been forwarded to you an anonymised
summary of all requests appear on the Bedford Borough website at the
following link:

[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [2][email address] .

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request
No. RFI-02507

Thank you for your recent enquiry for information held by the Council.

The Service area require further information before they are able to
process your request.

Details of information required

Please can you advise whether this is for a specific site or is it about a
specific planning development such as housing.

When we have received your response, we will contact you again to provide
details of when you might expect to receive the information from us.

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [1][email address] .

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

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2. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
3. mailto:[email%20address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request
No. RFI-02507

Thank you for your email clarifying your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.  We will now proceed with the request. 
It is our intention to have the information delivered to you by 18 October
2024.

The request is subject to any exemption which the Council may rely on to
refuse the request, some of which are absolute and some of which only
apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs
that in disclosing the information.

Once the information has been identified, the Council may also ask that a
fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Please note that once a response has been forwarded to you an anonymised
summary of all requests appear on the Bedford Borough website at the
following link:

[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [2][email address]

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request
No. RFI-02507

Further to your request for information dated 17 September 2024. I can
confirm that the information you requested is held under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. However, the Council, for the reasons that follow,
declines to disclose the information requested.

Under section 1(3) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 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.

After requesting clarification on the 18^th September and the 23^rd
September, a search was performed by our ICT Team with the following
terms:

Communications with “Bedfordia Group’ and ‘Bedfordia Farms’ since 2022 to
date;

• That contains in the email address: ‘Bedfordia Group’ or ‘Bedfordia
Farms’;
• That contains in their subject or including in the body of the email:
‘Bedfordia Group’ or ‘Bedfordia Farms’

The result of this search returned a total of 3570 emails.

Section 12 of the Act makes provision for the Council to refuse requests
for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the
appropriate limit of 18 hours.  This represents the estimated time and
cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Council
holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the
information.

We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to determine
appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in
reference to your request. Therefore, your request will not be processed
further.

You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more
specific about what information you particularly wish to obtain, including
 a specific site or is it about a specific planning development such as
housing.

If for whatever reason you are unhappy with our response to your
application you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction through the
Council's Internal Review Procedure.  Pursuant to Section 17 (7) of the
Act the procedure provided by the Council for dealing with complaints
about the determination of this request for information is the Council’s
FOI Complaints Procedure, a copy of which can be obtained on request or is
set out
at: [1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Tel: 01234 276816 (44816)

Website: [2]www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: [3]https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
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From: Request For Information <[4][email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 9:17 AM
To: Tom Smith <[5][FOI #1176158 email]>
Cc: Request For Information <[6][email address]>
Subject: Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No.
RFI-02507

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No.
RFI-02507

Thank you for your email clarifying your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will now proceed with the request. It
is our intention to have the information delivered to you by 18 October
2024.

The request is subject to any exemption which the Council may rely on to
refuse the request, some of which are absolute and some of which only
apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs
that in disclosing the information.

Once the information has been identified, the Council may also ask that a
fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Please note that once a response has been forwarded to you an anonymised
summary of all requests appear on the Bedford Borough website at the
following link:

[7]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [8][email address]

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: [9]www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: [10]https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

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2. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
3. mailto:[email%20address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Secure

Hello Tom

Thank you for your email, I have forwarded this to the relevant area.

We will update you as soon as we have further information.

Kind Regards

Angela Benedito (she/her)
Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Tel: 01234 276816 (44816)
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’
For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter: @bedfordtweets

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Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Secure

Dear Tom Smith,

Further to your email below, we narrowed the search down as per your
instructions.

However, the Council still declines to disclose the information requested.

As per your email dated 2nd October 2024, a search was performed by our
ICT Team with the following terms:

• Communications with Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms to include
reference to East West Rail and in 2022 only.

The result of this search returned a total of 95 emails with 244
attachments. We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to
determine appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the
information in reference to your request. Therefore, your request will not
be processed further.

You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more
specific about what information you particularly wish to obtain, including
 a specific site or is it about a specific planning development such as
housing. Could you narrow the time window further.

If for whatever reason you are unhappy with our response to your
application you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction through the
Council's Internal Review Procedure.  Pursuant to Section 17 (7) of the
Act the procedure provided by the Council for dealing with complaints
about the determination of this request for information is the Council’s
FOI Complaints Procedure, a copy of which can be obtained on request or is
set out
at: [1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Kind Regards

Customer Feedback Officer

Customer Services & Customer Feedback

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a
better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on Twitter:
@bedfordtweets

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

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3. mailto:[email%20address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Secure

Hello Tom

Thank you for your email, I have forwarded this to the relevant area.

We will update you as soon as we have further information.

Kind Regards

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’
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Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. RFI-02507

Further to your email dated 14th October we narrowed the search down as per your instructions.

However, the Council still declines to disclose the information requested.

As per your email dated 14th October 2024, a search was performed by our ICT Team narrowing down the request to communications with Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms to include reference to East West Rail between 1st January to 30th June 2022 only.

The result of this search returned a total of 201 documents. Section 12 of the Act makes provision for the Council to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours. This represents the estimated time and cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the Council holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to determine appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request. Therefore, your request will not be processed further.

If after receiving this further response you remain dissatisfied, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner at www.ico.gov.uk for a decision.

Any further questions will be logged and handled as a new request in line with the Freedom of Information Act.

Kind Regards

Maria Scapini
Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

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2. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
3. mailto:[email%20address]

Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/your-council/...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to 
[2][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply service.
If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions explaining how
to do this.

References

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1. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/your-council/...
2. mailto:[email%20address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. RFI-02947

Thank you for requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will proceed with the request which we received on the 07 November 2024. It is our intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible otherwise within the statutory 20 working days – by 05 December 2024

Request:
Please share all information held on meetings and correspondence with Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms from 1st January to 31st March 2022.
• Communications with Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms to include reference to East West Rail

In consideration of the request, which may be subject to any exemptions the Council may rely on to refuse the request, some of which are absolute and some of which only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs that in disclosing the information.

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to this matter should be emailed to [email address] .

Yours sincerely

Maria Scapini

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk  
‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on:
Twitter: @bedfordtweets  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

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Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Tom Smith,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. RFI-02507

I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the Council under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Request:
Please share all information held on meetings and correspondence with Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farms since 1st January to 31st March 2022.

Response:
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the local authority must confirm whether it holds the information requested and we can confirm that we do not hold this information.

The council has conducted an extensive search, in collaboration with its IT department, for any meetings or correspondence involving the Bedfordia Group and Bedfordia Farm, including the terms “EWR” and/or “East West Rail” for the periods of 1st January to 31st March 2022.
Following a thorough review of the results, we can confirm that the identified correspondence does not pertain to your request or subject matter.

If after viewing the information you are for whatever reason unhappy with our response to your application, you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction with the Information Commissioner Office (ICO). The ICO can be contacted on https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely

Maria Scapini

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
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Dear Tom Smith

I apologise for the error in quoting the wrong reference number.

Where we refer to FOI reference RFI-02507, should read RFI-02947

I apologise for this mistake.

Yours sincerely

Maria Scapini

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk  
‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on:
Twitter: @bedfordtweets  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

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