EIR – Specification for Canterbury District Place Strategies (DN772629)

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Your Request:

Please treat this as a request under the Environmental Information
Regulations 2004. 
 
I am requesting a copy of the tender specification and any associated
brief or supporting documents issued by Canterbury City Council under
opportunity reference DN772629 – “Canterbury District – Place Strategies”,
as advertised on the Kent Business Portal (Proactis). 
 
As the content of this commission clearly relates to town centre strategy,
land use, public realm and the built environment, it constitutes
environmental information under Regulation 2(1) of the EIR 2004. 
 
I understand the tender is currently live, however this does not exempt
the specification from disclosure. In particular, I ask the Council to
note the following: 

• If Regulation 12(5)(e) (commercial confidentiality) is being
considered, it must meet all four legal tests: the information must be
genuinely confidential, protected by law, commercial in nature, and
disclosure must demonstrably harm a legitimate economic interest. This
is rarely met where the information is already made available to
multiple tenderers or is not marked confidential. 
• If the Council relies on any exception, please specify the exact
regulation being applied, the rationale for doing so, and provide a
clear public interest test as required by Regulation 12(1)(b). 
• If only part of the information is considered exempt, I request
redacted disclosure of the remainder in line with Regulation 12(1)(a)
and 12(2)(c). 

This request is made in the public interest, given the Council’s
longstanding public commitments to develop place-based and town centre
strategies and the likely impact of this work on the built environment of
Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay. 

Our response: 

Please find this information attached.
The six documents below were made available to tendering parties in
reference to the above tender.

• Place strategies tender specification 2 
• Consultancy Agreement - Canterbury District Place Strategies
(24.04.2025) 
• ITT Response Document - V2 (1)
• ITT Instruction Document (11) 
• Appendix A - Tenderer's Real Living Wage information document 
• Appendix B - TO BE COMPLETED AND RETURNED Real Living Wage Response
Form 

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