Details of long term empty properties within the Ceredigion Council area

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Dear Ceredigion Council,

Please provide the following:

a) a list of all addresses within the Ceredigion Council area that are deemed "long term empty" properties, or otherwise abandoned; where these properties are state-owned, or private properties owned by companies, trusts, or organisations.

b) a list of the owners of all of the above properties.

In carrying out this request, I direct you to the judgement of Judge Henderson at an Information Tribunal following a similar request in Camden, where it was stated that 'publication of this list would bring a proportion of the void properties back into use earlier than would otherwise be the case and that, consequently, this is a strong public interest in favour of disclosure.' (source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-... )

I understand that under the act, I should be entitled to a response within 20 working days of your receipt of this email.

Some parts of this request may be easier to answer than others, and should this prove to be the case I would ask that you release available data as soon as possible rather than hold up the entire request.

I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If the decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in the Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.

Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way.

I would be grateful if you could confirm that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully,
Andrew Tindall

Dear Ceredigion Council,

Please send me the details requested on 6th September re: Details of long term empty properties within the Ceredigion Council area.

You were legally obliged to provide this information by the 4th October 2011, you have failed to do so.

If I do not receive the information within 24 hours I shall request a formal internal review.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Tindall

Elizabeth Jones, Ceredigion County Council

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Further to your e-mail request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act, please find attached the details you requested.

 

Regards

 

Liz Jones

Cynorthwyydd Gweinyddol - Adain y CC

Administrative Assistant- DF Section

 

Rhif Ffon / Telephone No.  - 01970 633106

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Dear Elizabeth Jones,

Some of the information in this response appears incredibly out of date, with reference to long removed university departments such as IGER. Is this really the most up-to-date information the council has? Do you know what year the data was collected?

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Tindall