Bristol City Council owned land: byelaw permits

The request was successful.

Dear Bristol City Council,

Please could you release, in electronic form via this WhatDoTheyKnow request, a list of permits relating to Bristol City Council-owned land, allowing the undertaking of activities which would otherwise be prevented by byelaws.

For each permit, please could you list:
a) the date applied for and issued
b) the commencement date and expiration date of the permit
c) the location(s) to which the permit applies
d) the activities permitted
e) any conditions with which the permit holder is required to comply

Please could you include all permits which are currently valid, regardless of when they were issued, and also include any permit issued in the last ten years which is no longer valid, with, for this latter category, two additional pieces of information:

f) whether this permit is no longer valid because it has expired or been revoked
g) if revoked, the revocation reason.

In order to comply with the Data Protection Act, please ensure you do not include any personal data, such as names of permit applicants.

My preferred format is an Excel spreadsheet.

If the work involving in responding to this request is likely to exceed the appropriate limit, please get in touch to discuss how the request can be modified.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

Freedom of Information, Bristol City Council

Thank you for your request for information. You should expect to receive a response within the 20 working day limit.

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Chris Harper, Bristol City Council

Dear Ms Davis. Thank you for your FOI request. However, it has become
clear that to identify the number of byelaws which might apply to Council
owned land is likely to exceed the 18 hours of officer time limitation and
I therefore wondered if you could be more specific about your request, for
example is there land in a certain part of the city which you are
interested in.

The request is therefore being refused in accordance with section 12 of
the Freedom of Information Act and or regulation 12(4)(b) of the
Environmental Information regulations 2004. Although the City Council aims
to be transparent and accountable to the public, we must also consider the
cost or burden placed upon officers' time in responding to such large
requests. As a result and due to the time estimated to respond to the
request in its current format, we are unable to respond.

If you believe this time estimate to be inaccurate then you have the right
to appeal through the Council's Complaints procedure, which can be found
at [1]http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/complaints. If, after you have
exhausted the Council’s complaints procedure, you are still not satisfied
with the response you have received you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioner, details of your right to complain can be found
at [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx  

 

Regards

Chris Harper

Central Support Manager

Management Suite

Brunel House

St George's Rd

Bristol

BS1 5UY

 

[3]Tel:0117 922 3382

E-mail: [4][email address]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Chris,

Thanks for your reply. Please can you send me a list of city-council owned land to which bye-laws apply. I will return this, sorted into priority order. This will then enable you to work through the list until the 18-hour limit is reached.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Davis

Chris Harper, Bristol City Council

Dear Susan. I have forwarded your refined request to colleagues in our Property Services team and will send through the results as soon as I have them.

Regards

Chris Harper
Central Support Manager
Management Suite
Brunel House
St George's Rd
Bristol
BS1 5UY

Tel:0117 922 3382
E-mail: [email address]

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Chris Harper, Bristol City Council

Dear Ms Davis. Colleagues in our Property Services Team have advised that
the Council has ownership records for over 36,000 land assets equating to
approx 39% of land inside the city boundary. We can provide you with these
records which would comprise details of basic address and property type
but, again, to identify which of these land assets is subject to bye laws
would exceed the 18 hour limitation on officer time.

 

Could I therefore suggest that we supply you with the land asset record
and perhaps you could then identify which plots of land you are interested
in. Once you have done that, we can in turn check as to whether these are
subject to bye laws. Could you please let me know whether you would
consider that to be an acceptable response to your request.

 

Regards

 

Chris Harper

Central Support Manager

Management Suite

Brunel House

St George's Rd

Bristol

BS1 5UY

 

Tel:0117 922 3382

E-mail: [email address]

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Chris,

Thanks for your email. Reading this, I am concerned that maybe you have misunderstood, and that's probably my fault for not being clearer, so I apologise.

I presume your 36,000 units includes all of the city's publicly-owned housing, office buildings and so on. I am only interested in what I would term "open space" (although I don't necessarily mean just land which is open to the public: any land which is not developed would come into this category. I would regard allotments as developed so you can exclude these too).

With that in mind, does the original request come within the 18-hour limit? If so, then please go ahead with it. If not, then is it possible to send me a list of sites of this type, which I can then prioritise?

Yours sincerely,

Susan Davis

Chris Harper, Bristol City Council

Dear Susan. A colleague of mine in our Property Services Team will shortly send you the record of the "open space" land assets owned by the Council.

Regards

Chris Harper
Central Support Manager
Management Suite
Brunel House
St George's Rd
Bristol
BS1 5UY

Tel:0117 922 3382
E-mail: [email address]

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Katie Gold, Bristol City Council

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Dear Ms Davis

I am responding to your request received by Chris Harper on 28/05/2013,
for a list of all property that could be described as undeveloped open
space land in the Council's ownership.

I am attaching an Excel spreadsheet that lists all property owned
and/or managed by the Council with relevant property descriptions/types.
I have tried as far as possible to include all property that would fall
into the category of open space land, but exclude property that is
developed; apologies if I have included property types that you are not
interested in, and that the list is rather long, but I have tried to err
on the side of including more than you want rather than exclude land
that you would be interested in.

I have also included a column to show the Council's Title for each
property.

This response should answer your request in full. However, if you are
not satisfied with this response or wish to lodge an appeal against any
exemptions that may have been applied, you can do so by writing to the
Data Protection Officer at Bristol City Council Legal Services, City
Hall, College Green, Bristol, or [Bristol City Council request email]. Details of the
complaints procedure can be found at
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If, after you have exhausted the Council’s complaints procedure, you
are still not satisfied with the response you have received, you have
the right to complain to the Information Commissioner. Details of your
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Kind regards

Katie Gold
Snr Business Information Officer
Corporate Property Team, Strategic Property
Corporate Services Directorate
Bristol City Council
Tel: 0117 9037476
Email: [email address]

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Dear Chris,

Thank you for aranging for the information on open spaces to be sent through; please also pass my thanks on to Katie Gold who sent this information to me.

It will take me some time to work through this information to decide which sites I require further information about, so please feel free to close this request as successful, and I will raise a further request at some point in the future to obtain the permit information I originally requested, for the smaller subset of sites, once I have identified which ones these are.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Davis

Chris Harper, Bristol City Council

Susan. Thanks for confirming that we can close this request down. Good hunting !

Regards

Chris Harper
Central Support Manager
Management Suite
Brunel House
St George's Rd
Bristol
BS1 5UY

Tel:0117 922 3382
E-mail: [email address]

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