FOI Request - children's play areas

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Jon Parker-Dean

Dear Caerphilly County Borough 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

WWW: FOI, Caerphilly County Borough Council

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Dear Jon Parker-Dean

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your request for information received on the 23rd July 2019.
We have considered your request and enclose the following information -

 

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)

 

169 children’s play areas

 

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

 

156 children’s play areas

 

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

 

None

 

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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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Parker-Dean [mailto:[FOI #591613 email]]
Sent: 23 July 2019 15:48
To: WWW: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - FOI Request - children's play
areas

 

Dear Caerphilly County Borough 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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Mae'r e-bost hwn ac unrhyw ffeiliau sy'n atodol yn gyfrinachol a dim ond
ar gyfer defnydd yr unigolyn neu'r sefydliad y cyfeiriwyd atynt. Os ydych
wedi derbyn yr e-bost hwn ar gam rhowch wybod i reolwr eich system. Nodwch
fod unrhyw sylwadau neu farn o fewn testun yr e-bost yw sylwadau a barn yr
awdur yn unig ac nid yn angenrheidiol yn cynrychioli barn Cyngor
Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili. I orffen, dylai'r person sy'n derbyn yr
e-bost sicrhau nad oes firws ynghlwm nac mewn unrhyw ddogfen atodol i'r
e-bost. Nid yw'r Cyngor yn derbyn unrhyw gyfrifoldeb am unrhyw ddifrod
achoswyd gan unrhyw firws sy'n cael ei drosglwyddo gan yr e-bost hwn.
 
Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg, Saesneg neu'n ddwyieithog (yn
unol â'ch dewis), ac mewn ieithoedd a fformatau eraill. Cewch ymateb yn
unol â'ch dewis iaith os nodwch hynny i ni, ac ni fydd cyfathrebu â ni yn
Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi.
 
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