Blue badge disabled parking permits
Good afternoon,
I hope you are well. I would be grateful if you would treat this correspondence as a formal request for disclosure of the following information, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("FoI").
Description of information sought:
How many regular car parking bays are there in all of the council-owned car parks across the council area?
How many disabled car parking bays are there in all of the council-owned car parks across the council area?
How many people held a blue badge disabled parking permit issued by the council as at 30 August 2019?
How many applications for blue badge disabled parking permits has the council received since 30 August 2019?
How many of these applications for blue badge disabled parking permits received since 30 August 2019 has the council:
1. Approved
2. Directly refused
3. Refused due to an incomplete request
How many applications for blue badge disabled parking permits has the council received from applicants with hidden/non-visible disabilities (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/peopl...) since 30 August 2019?
How many of these applications for blue badge disabled parking permits received from applicants with hidden/non-visible disabilities (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/peopl...) since 30 August 2019 has the council:
1. Approved
2. Directly refused
3. Refused due to an incomplete request
Could the council please provide the answers to all of the above questions by downloading this read-only Googlesheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1... and filling out its answers in one row of the download, re-saving it and it sending it back as an attachment in response in a .csv file format?
If you need any clarification about my request, or if you cannot provide all of the data I have requested, please contact me to discuss what information you could supply at the earliest opportunity on +443030823927.
If I am mistaken and the information requested is already in the public domain, please direct me to where I can find it.
If it is not, and you feel you cannot provide all of this information, please provide what information you can in the spirit of Section 16 of FoI, to ‘provide advice and assistance, so far as it would be reasonable to expect the authority to do so, to persons who propose to make, or have made requests for information’.
Please provide me with a summary of the information I have requested.
I look forward to hearing from you promptly, and at any rate, within the statutory time limit of 20 working days from your receipt of this request.
Whilst writing, I take this opportunity to remind you of the Information Commissioner's public statements, in which he has stated that there is a "presumption of disclosure" under FoI.
Please note that if this request for FoI disclosure is refused, I reserve the right to take up the matter with the Information Commissioner and/or to pursue all legal avenues of appeal. I trust this will not be necessary.
Thanks in advance for your help, kind regards,
Alex Homer
Senior Journalist
BBC Shared Data Unit
Thank you for your recent FOI / EIR request. Please find attached an acknowledgement for this request.
Dear Alex Homer
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your request for information received on the 17th August
2020. We apologise for the delay in responding to your request, this was
due to resources being reassigned to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic.
We have considered your request and enclose the following information –
(1) How many regular car parking bays are there in all of the
council-owned car parks across the council area?
3,176
(2) How many disabled car parking bays are there in all of the
council-owned car parks across the council area?
167
(3) How many people held a blue badge disabled parking permit issued by
the council as at 30 August 2019?
14,883
(4) How many applications for blue badge disabled parking permits has the
council received since 30 August 2019?
Information not held
(5) How many of these applications for blue badge disabled parking permits
received since 30 August 2019 has the council:
(a) Approved
Information not held
(b) Directly refused
Information not held
(c) Refused due to an incomplete request
Information not held
(6) How many applications for blue badge disabled parking permits has the
council received from applicants with hidden/non-visible disabilities
([1]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/peopl...)
since 30 August 2019?
Not applicable - this was introduced in England on the 30^th August 2019.
The Cognitive Impairment Criteria has been in force in Wales since
December 2014.
7/ How many of these applications for blue badge disabled parking permits
received from applicants with hidden/non-visible disabilities
([2]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/peopl...)
since 30 August 2019 has the council:
(a) Approved
Not applicable (as above)
(b) Directly refused
Not applicable (as above)
(c) Refused due to an incomplete request
Not applicable (as above)
We supply this information based on your original request. If this is not
what you wanted or if you feel we have not fully understood your request
please do not hesitate to contact me to clarify your exact requirements.
If you have any queries or concerns or are in any way dissatisfied with
the handling of your request please contact [3][Caerphilly County Borough Council request email].
Yours sincerely
GARETH GRIFFITHS
Corporate Information Governance Unit
Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations
2004
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