RE: Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000/Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Case Reference: RFI 7767

Dear Immanuel Feld

Thank you for your email.

It will be treated as a request within the meaning of the Act: this means that we will send you a full response within 20 working days, either supplying you with the information which you want, or explaining to you why we cannot supply it.

If we need any further clarification or there is any problem we will be in touch.

Please note that following guidance from the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), we will no longer be providing responses in an Excel spreadsheet format.

Yours sincerely

Disclosures Team
Companies, Compliance and Assurance Service
Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tel: 0300 123 8123 (Customer Contact Centre)
Email: [email address]
Visit: cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Postal Address: Cheshire West and Chester Council, The Portal, Wellington Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BA

Cheshire West and Chester Council is committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. To learn more about how we handle your personal information when you contact the Council's Data Protection and Compliance Team, please see our Advice, Enquiries and Complaints Privacy Notice on the Council's website or ask for a copy of the notice to be sent to you.

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Dear Immanuel Feld

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

For us to process to your request further could you please respond to the request below:

Can we please ask for clarification about the term 'Council' - does the requester mean Cheshire West and Chester Council, which means the data we would supply would only start from 2009. Or does the requester want data specifically from 2005 onwards, which was when libraries were managed by Cheshire County Council?

We look forward to hearing from you. Once we have this clarification we will work towards your response.

Yours sincerely

Disclosures Team
Companies, Compliance and Assurance Service Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tel: 0300 123 8123 (Customer Contact Centre)
Email: [email address]
Visit: cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Postal Address: Cheshire West and Chester Council, The Portal, Wellington Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BA

Cheshire West and Chester Council is committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. To learn more about how we handle your personal information when you contact the Council's Data Protection and Compliance Team, please see our Advice, Enquiries and Complaints Privacy Notice on the Council's website or ask for a copy of the notice to be sent to you.

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Dear Immanuel Feld

Thank you for your request for information of 6^th February 2024 which
has been logged as RFI 7767 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We confirm that Cheshire West and Chester Council
holds information relating to your request.

For the purpose of clarity your request has been reproduced below:

Specifically, under the FOI legislation, I request a list of all public
libraries run by your council between 2005 and 2022. Additionally, could
you please provide information on dates of opening and closure (with at
least year-month precision) if they started or ceased operation over that
period. Lastly, could you please provide information on opening and
closing hours of the library in that given year?

That means the final dataset would have the following columns:

Name of the library, address, date of opening, date of closing, opening
hours in year 2005, opening hours in year 2006, … , opening hours in year
2022.

If collecting daily opening hours is not possible, annual opening hours
are sufficient, too.

Our Response:

The information you request above can be obtained from the following link:
Dataset link includes information for Cheshire West and Chester Council’s
Library Service (2009 - 2022).

[1]https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/216...

As the information is already in the public domain, we consider an
exemption applies at Section 21 of the FOIA.  The purpose of Section 21(1)
is to ensure that there is no right of access to information via FOIA if
it is available to the applicant by another route. For more information on
the Council’s application of Section 21 please visit the legislation.gov
website on the following link:
[2]https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200....

We trust this answers your query.

The Council considers that your request has been answered in full by
either confirming that information is not held, providing you with the
information requested, or explaining why any information has been withheld
and the reasons for any redaction. Where applicable, the Council has also
told you the reasons for the delay in responding to your request.

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled you can request a review by writing to the Disclosures Team within
40 working days from the date of the Council’s response.

You are entitled to a review by the Council if:

·      You are dissatisfied with the Council’s explanation of why the
application was not dealt with within the 20 working day time limit.

·      All the information requested is not being disclosed and you have
not received an explanation why some information is not being disclosed.

·      A reason for the disclosures under the request being refused is not
received.

·      You consider that exemptions have been wrongly applied, and/or

·      You consider that a fee has been wrongly applied.

Please set out your grounds for seeking a review together with what
specific part of your request those grounds apply to and the outcome you
are seeking. The Council reserves the right to ask you for clarification
of the grounds for your review request if the grounds are not clear, and
to delay commencing the review if such grounds are not provided.

The Disclosures Team can be contacted by email via:
[3][Cheshire West and Chester Council request email] or at the following address:

Disclosures Team

Cheshire West and Chester Council

The Portal

Wellington Road

Ellesmere Port

CH65 0BA

The Disclosures Team will acknowledge a request for an internal review
within 5 working days and complete the review as soon as possible and no
later than 40 working days from receipt of the request.

More information about the Council’s internal review process can be found
via:

[4]https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.u...

If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your review, you have
a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

The Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

Website: [5]www.ico.org.uk

There is no charge for making an appeal.

Yours sincerely

Disclosures Team – Companies, Compliance and Assurance Service

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tel: 0300 123 8 123

Email: [6][email address]

Location: Cheshire West and Chester Council, The Portal, Wellington Road,
Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BA

FD

Cheshire West and Chester Council is committed to ensuring the security
and protection of the personal information that we process and to provide
a compliant and consistent approach to data protection.  To learn more
about how we handle your personal information when you contact the
Council’s Data Protection and Compliance Team,  please see our [7]Advice,
Enquiries and Complaints Privacy Notice on the Council's website or ask
for a copy of the notice to be sent to you.

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5. http://www.ico.org.uk/
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Dear Immanuel Feld

Thank you for your email. We will contact the appropriate department and provide an updated response in due course.

Yours sincerely

Disclosures Team
Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Dear Immanuel Feld

Thank you for your request for information of 6^th February 2024 which
has been logged as RFI 7767 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We confirm that Cheshire West and Chester Council
holds information relating to your request.

From the information provided, please note that the data in the public
dataset [1]https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/216...

directed to in the response runs from 2009-2022.  The data from 2009 and
would be the same in 2005.

Please accept our apologies for this omission.

We trust this answers your query.

Yours sincerely

Disclosures Team – Companies, Compliance and Assurance Service

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tel: 0300 123 8 123

Email: [2][email address]

Location: Cheshire West and Chester Council, The Portal, Wellington Road,
Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BA

FD

Cheshire West and Chester Council is committed to ensuring the security
and protection of the personal information that we process and to provide
a compliant and consistent approach to data protection.  To learn more
about how we handle your personal information when you contact the
Council’s Data Protection and Compliance Team,  please see our [3]Advice,
Enquiries and Complaints Privacy Notice on the Council's website or ask
for a copy of the notice to be sent to you.

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