Environmental information relating to any concerns raised about the location of Traveller sites in hazardous or polluted locations
Dear Allerdale 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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If you are unable to provide five years of information within the FOI/EIR cost limits, please prioritise 2021 and work backwards in reverse chronological order.
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
Allerdale Borough Council
Allerdale House
Workington
CA14 3YJ
Telephone: 01900 326333
Dear Mr Gareth Davies,
Request IAR466
Thank you for your request for information, received on [date received].
We are currently processing your request under the terms of the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). You will receive your
information as soon as possible, and no later than 20 working days after
the receipt of your request.
The information you have requested will be provided to you in an
electronic format, unless you have otherwise stated a preference for the
format of the information. If we are unable to supply you with the
information in the format you have requested, we will provide an
explanation along with the provisions of Regulation 11 and the enforcement
and appeal provisions of the EIR applied by regulation 18, in our response
to your request.
Where the Council believe that that the volume and complexity of the
information requested would make it impracticable to comply with your
request within the 20 working day period, or to make a decision to refuse
the request under a relevant exemption, you will be notified as soon as
possible and no later than 20 working days after the receipt of your
request.
If your request relates to environmental information not held by the
Council, but we believe that another public authority holds the
information, the Council will supply you with the name and address of that
authority.
The Council is only obliged under the EIR to make information available
for inspection free of charge and therefore if the amount of information
is voluminous, we may charge a reasonable administration fee for providing
you with the information requested. If this is the case, we will notify
you as quickly as possible and no later than 20 working days after the
receipt of your request.
For further information on how to access information from a public body,
please consult the Information Commissioners Office's website using the
link https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/off....
If you have any queries about this please do not hesitate to contact us
directly, quoting the reference number listed in all communications.
With kind regards,
James Dixon
James Dixon | Information Governance and Data Protection OfficerAllerdale
Borough Council, Allerdale House, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3YJT: 01900
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Allerdale Borough Council
Allerdale House
Workington
CA14 3YJ
Telephone: 01900 326333
Dear Mr Gareth Davies
Request IAR466
Further to your request received on 13/04/2022, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The Council does not have any official gypsy and Traveler sites.
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purpose of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.
The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. Only requests deemed to be in the public interest
will be included and any request included within this log will be
de-personalised accordingly.
To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website.
If you have any queries about this email please do not hesitate to contact
me directly, quoting the reference number listed at the top of this letter
in all communications.
If you are unhappy with the Council’s response to your request and wish to
make a complaint please write to us or complete the on-line complaint form
that can be found on our website.
If after going through the Council’s Internal Review process you are still
not satisfied, you can contact the Information Commissioner direct.
Information Commissioner
Helpline: 0303 123 1113
Wycliffe House 01625 545 745
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Email:
Wilmslow [2]www.ico.org.uk
Website:
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Kind regards,
James Dixon
James Dixon | Information Governance and Data Protection OfficerAllerdale
Borough Council, Allerdale House, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3YJT: 01900
516663 |E: [email address] | W: www.allerdale.gov.uk Making
Allerdale a great place to live, work and visit? Please consider the
environment - do you really need to print this email?
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