Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[email address]

Dear John Watton, 

Please accept our sincerest apologies for the delay in responding to your
FOI request. I can confirm we have sent an urgent email to the service and
have requested for an immediate response. Once we have any further updates
we will ensure to contact you without any further delay. 

Once again we apologies and thank you for your kind patience. 

Thank you. 

Kind regards, 
Information Team. 

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[email address]

Dear john watton

Request FOI/10708

Further to your request received on 23/09/2024, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

Specifically, you have requested the following information:

Please supply us with specific information & records your Council may hold
in respect of its direct or indirect payments to accommodate people at 518
Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RE in respect of 2023 & current year

Please be advised that we do not currently have or manage a property at
518 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RE.
It is not on the housing system

The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. (Any request included within this log will be
anonymised appropriately)

To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website available
here:

[1]The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act | Croydon Council
(disclosure-log.co.uk)

If you are dissatisfied with the way the Council has handled your request
under the Freedom of Information Act you may ask for an internal review.
This should be submitted to us within 40 working days of this response.
You can do this by outlining the details of your complaint by:

Email:        [2][email address]

Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

Floor 7 - Zone B

                  8 Mint Walk

Croydon, CR0 1EA

Any requests received after the 40 working day time limit will be
considered only at the discretion of the council.

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:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

[3][email address]

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Dear John Watton,

Further to your email dated 7 November 2024, in which you requested an
Internal Review of the Council’s response to your request for information
made under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA), I have now concluded
this review and I am able to reply as follows.

In your request for Internal Review, you asked the Council to reconsider
your request as you believed that you had not been provided with the
information requested.

In your request for information dated 23 September 2024 you requested the
following information:

“Please supply us with specific information & records your Council may
hold in respect of its direct or indirect payments to accommodate people
at 518 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RE in respect of 2023 & current year”

The Council responded to you on the 1 November 2024 and provided the
following response:

“Please be advised that we do not currently have or manage a property at
518 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RE.

It is not on the housing system”

In your request for an Internal Review dated 7 November 2024 you stated
the following:

“I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Councils
handling of my FOI request direct or indirect payments re 518 Purley Way
Croydon.

Your response " Please be advised that we do not currently have or manage
a property at 518 purley way Croydon CR0 4RE It is not on the housing
system " totally fails to answer my request

We have been informed by some of the occupants of 518 Purley Way they are
being housed there at the expense of Croydon Council directly or
indirectly

The owner of 518 Purley Way is 518 Ltd The person who is the sole
shareholder of that company is Mr Shujat (Chico) Khan who also is the sole
shareholder of K B World Ltd which promotes itself as providing housing to
local authorities

All these companies & other associated companies are based at 151 Stafford
Road Wallington SM6 9BN

Please answer the FOI request as to whether or not your Council directly
or indirectly pays to house people at 518 Purley Way Croydon”

On receiving your request for an Internal Review, I have considered the
issues you raised.

All Local Authorities are required to make available details of payments
made by the Council to contractors and service providers over £500.  These
[1]can be found on the Council’s website.  The Council therefore considers
any information in respect of payments made exempt under the exemption
provided for in Section 21 of FoIA (Information Accessible to Applicant by
other Means). 

Any information that may be held in respect of individual households, is
exempt under the exemption provided for in Section 40 (5B) (Personal
Information) and the Council is neither able to confirm nor deny what
information is held. As previously stated, the Council does not manage
these properties.

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:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Howard Passman

020 8726 6000 ext. 27103

Resources Directorate

Legal Services Division

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Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

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