Environmental information relating to any concerns raised about the location of Traveller sites in hazardous or polluted locations
Dear Elmbridge Borough Council,
Please could you provide the following information on socially rented Traveller sites in your local authority area for the five full calendar years between 2017 and 2021. This includes all sites owned and managed by the local authority or by a housing association, but not private sites. For any 'yes' answers, please specify in your answer which site the answer refers to, e.g. 'Mary Street, Bradford', or 'Esholt Site, Bradford'.
For the purposes of this request, this is made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
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1a. Have you received any environmental complaints from residents or other parties, including council officers, between 2017 and 2021? Please respond with a 'Yes' or 'No' answer for each of the five years.
1b. For any 'Yes' answers, please list how many complaints you received by type for each calendar year. For example: 2017 - Total: 18 - 8 complaints for vermin, 2 from odour from refuse dump, 1 for noise, 3 for insects, 1 for dust, 2 for air pollution, 1 for flooding etc
2a. Between 2017 and 2021, has the council measured air or noise pollution, or taken soil samples to test for contamination? Please respond with a 'Yes' or 'No' answer for each of the five years for air, soil and noise separately. For example: 2017 - Noise pollution - Yes; Soil - No; Air pollution - Yes.
2b. For any 'Yes' answers, please state whether or not pollution or contamination exceeded legal or recommended levels, or was higher than the local authority area average on the site at any point through each year. Please give as much detail as you can, such as the month the breach occurred. For example: 2017 - Noise pollution exceeded legal or recommended levels in March; air pollution exceeded legal level.
Yours faithfully,
Katharine Quarmby
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Dear Elmbridge Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Elmbridge Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Environmental information relating to any concerns raised about the location of Traveller sites in hazardous or polluted locations'.
This request is now long overdue and I would appreciate a speedy response.
Yours faithfully,
Katharine Quarmby/Gareth Davies
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Dear Mr. Davies
Please accept my apologies for the delayed response.
Please see my response to your freedom of information request below.
1a - The Council does not have any records of any environmental
complaints from residents or other parties, including council officers,
between 2017 and 2021.
2a - The Council does not have any records of measurements of air or
noise pollution and have not taken soil samples to test for contamination.
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Yours
Maureen Peart
Private Sector Housing Manager
Private Sector Housing
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Dear Maureen Peart,
Thank you for your response. Can you clarify whether or not you have socially rented sites in the borough which have no complaints, or whether there are no sites.
Yours sincerely,
Katharine Quarmby
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