Information Rights Team
1st Floor Westfields
Ian Welsh
C/O Delamere House
Delamere Street
Crewe
CW1 2LL
Telephone: 0300 123 5500
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Date: 24 November 2023
Our Reference: 23084630
Your reference:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ian Welsh
Information Request - 23084630 - Allotments waiting list
I am responding to your request for information, which has been considered under the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and logged as case 23084630.
Your request is as follows:
“As of October 2023, please could you tell me: 1) How many allotment sites are in the following areas Macclesfield Congleton Crewe & Nantwich
2) Please can you give allotment waiting list data for each Borough please? 3) What is the total number of plots on these sites? 4) How many new council allotment sites were brought into use in since 2020? Please give: a) number of new sites b) total number of new plots”
I can confirm that Cheshire East holds some of the information you requested.
In response to your question 1, there are 15 sites, in total - 2 sites managed by Cheshire East,
plot data is not held.
We do not hold the data in relation to the remaining questions.
Therefore regulation 12(4)(a) applies to questions 2-4 of your request. Regulation 12(4)(a)
provides an exception to the duty to disclose information when information is not held.
Detail of all allotment sites in Cheshire East can be found on our website here:
Allotment Sites in Cheshire East Please quote the reference number 23084630 in any future communications.
An anonymised copy of this response may be published in the Council’s Disclosure Log, which is
available online at the following address:
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/foi
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your request or if you are not happy with the way your
request has been handled, you can request an internal review. Internal review requests should
be submitted within 20 working days of our response by emailing
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx or in writing to the Information Rights Team, Cheshire
East Council, 1st Floor, Westfields, c/o Delamere House, Delamere Street, Crewe, CW1 2LL.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly
to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at:
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. The Information Commissioner will not normally
investigate your case until the Council’s internal review process has been completed.
Yours sincerely
Ruth Dickinson-Higham
Information Rights Officer
Cheshire East Council