Governance and Planning

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Dear Poling Parish Meeting,

How many residents are with in the boundaries of the Parish meeting?

How often, when, where and what are the dates of the meetings for the current year 2012/13 for Parish Meetings?

Does the parish have any plans of merging with neighbouring Parish meetings or Parish Councils?

Please provide copies of all the minutes of all the meetings of the Parish meeting for meetings held since 1 January 2010?

Does the Parish have a current and accepted Parish Plan? If not are there any plans to have a Parish Plan or does a version exist in draft form?

Does the Parish have a Neighbourhood Plan? If not are there any plans to have a Neighbourhood Plan or does a version exist in draft form?

Yours faithfully,

J Nelson

Dear Poling Parish Meeting,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Poling Parish Meeting's handling of my FOI request 'Governance and Planning' sent on 10 June.

No response has been of any kind has been received.

I would like to remind you of your obligations as a Public Authority subject to the Freedom of Information Act. A response to a request is usually required within 20 working days in exceptional circumstances it can be 40 working days. A response inside either time frame has not occurred .

Failure to comply with this request may result in referral to the Information Commissioner.

Yours faithfully,

J Nelson

Dear Poling Parish Meeting,

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/go...

Yours faithfully,

J Nelson

Bryan Curtis, Poling Parish Meeting

J Nelson
Apologies for the delay in replying. In response to your queries 

    How many residents are with in the boundaries of the Parish
    meeting? Apologies but I have no records to answer this.

    How often, when, where and what are the dates of the meetings for
    the current year 2012/13 for Parish Meetings? I will conduct an
annual meeting later in the year.

    Does the parish have any plans of merging with neighbouring Parish
    meetings or Parish Councils? No.

    Please provide copies of all the minutes of all the meetings of the
    Parish meeting for meetings held since 1 January 2010? Apologies but
I only have hand written copy and no resources to duplicate them. They
will be   made available on our website when I can get them scanned.

    Does the Parish have a current and accepted Parish Plan? If not are
    there any plans to have a Parish Plan or does a version exist in
    draft form? No and no plans to establish one.
    Does the Parish have a Neighbourhood Plan? If not are there any
    plans to have a Neighbourhood Plan or does a version exist in draft
    form? No and no plans at present to prepare one.

Best regards.
Bryan Curtis
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From: J Nelson <[1][FOI #118779 email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Governance and Planning
Date: 10 June 2012 11:38:26 BST
To: FOI requests at Poling Parish Meeting
<[2][Poling Parish Meeting request email]>
    Dear Poling Parish Meeting,

    How many residents are with in the boundaries of the Parish
    meeting?

    How often, when, where and what are the dates of the meetings for
    the current year 2012/13 for Parish Meetings?

    Does the parish have any plans of merging with neighbouring Parish
    meetings or Parish Councils?

    Please provide copies of all the minutes of all the meetings of the
    Parish meeting for meetings held since 1 January 2010?

    Does the Parish have a current and accepted Parish Plan? If not are
    there any plans to have a Parish Plan or does a version exist in
    draft form?

    Does the Parish have a Neighbourhood Plan? If not are there any
    plans to have a Neighbourhood Plan or does a version exist in draft
    form?

    Yours faithfully,

    J Nelson

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Dear Mr. Curtis,

Thank you for you response.

Please find below a supplementary pursuant to the original Freedom of Information request:

What preparations have been undertaken in relation to preparing for and complying with the planning rules under the National Planning Policy Framework of 2012, the Localism Act of 2011 and associated relevant Planning Acts?

Are there any plans for the Parish Meeting to take on or have bestowed up it any additional functions as set out in Section 109 of the Local Government Act, 1972

Yours sincerely,

J Nelson

Bryan Curtis, Poling Parish Meeting

Mr Nelson

In response to your queries I am still trying to make sense of the new legislation so no preparations have yet been made.

Best regards.

Bryan Curtis

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