FOI Request - children's play areas

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Jon Parker-Dean

Dear Ashfield District Council,

Please can you help me with the following FOI request?

1) How many council owned public children’s play areas (by which I mean parks, playgrounds, adventure playgrounds, assault courses and any other play areas) do you currently operate (latest figures available)

2) How many council owned public children’s play areas did you own or operate in the financial year 2009/2010

3) How many council owned public children’s play areas were sold, or closed, from the financial year 2009/2010 to the present date?

4) If the figures are held, what was the area covered by children's play areas that you owned measured by square feet in 2009/10, and on the most recent date for which figures are available?

Yours faithfully,

Jon Parker-Dean

noreply, Ashfield District Council

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Dear Mr Parker-Dean

 

Request for Information

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

 

I refer to your request reference number 5275 received on 23 July 2019 and
acknowledged on 23 July 2019.

 

Your request was:

 

1) How many council owned public children’s play areas (by which I mean
parks, playgrounds, adventure playgrounds, assault courses and any other
play areas) do you currently operate (latest figures available)

2) How many council owned public children’s play areas did you own or
operate in the financial year 2009/2010

3) How many council owned public children’s play areas were sold, or
closed, from the financial year 2009/2010 to the present date?

4) If the figures are held, what was the area covered by children's play
areas that you owned measured by square feet in 2009/10, and on the most
recent date for which figures are available?

 

Your request for information has now been considered and I can confirm, in
accordance with s.1 (1)(a) of the FOIA, that the Council does hold the
information you have requested.  I have answered your questions in the
same order as they appear on your request: -

 

1) How many council owned public children’s play areas (by which I mean
parks, playgrounds, adventure playgrounds, assault courses and any other
play areas) do you currently operate (latest figures available) - 47

2) How many council owned public children’s play areas did you own or
operate in the financial year 2009/2010 - 48

3) How many council owned public children’s play areas were sold, or
closed, from the financial year 2009/2010 to the present date? - 1

4) If the figures are held, what was the area covered by children's play
areas that you owned measured by square feet in 2009/10, and on the most
recent date for which figures are available? – Information not held

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Colin Sawers
Information Officer
Ashfield and Mansfield Legal Services

Ashfield District Council
Urban Road
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
NOTTINGHAM
NG17 8DA

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From: Jon Parker-Dean <[FOI #591549 email]>
Sent: 23 July 2019 15:46
To: foi <[Ashfield District Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - FOI Request - children's play
areas

 

This message originated from outside your organization

Dear Ashfield District Council,

Please can you help me with the following FOI request?

1) How many council owned public children’s play areas (by which I mean
parks, playgrounds, adventure playgrounds, assault courses and any other
play areas) do you currently operate (latest figures available)

2) How many council owned public children’s play areas did you own or
operate in the financial year 2009/2010

3) How many council owned public children’s play areas were sold, or
closed, from the financial year 2009/2010 to the present date?

4) If the figures are held, what was the area covered by children's play
areas that you owned measured by square feet in 2009/10, and on the most
recent date for which figures are available?

Yours faithfully,

Jon Parker-Dean

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