We acknowledge receipt of your request to Manchester City Council,
concerning:

Heaton Park

If your request comes under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) or
the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), we will aim to
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provide you with a response in respect of that part of your request
without undue delay and by no later than one calendar month, unless an
extension to that timescale applies (we will let you know if that is the
case).

 

The reference number for your request is FOI/10650.

 

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Manchester City Council

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Dear Mr Boden

 

Re: Request for Information – Heaton Park - Reference Number: FOI10650   

 

Thank you for your request for information, which was received by
Manchester City Council on 12th September 2023 and has been considered
under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the 2000
Act”).

 

The detail of your request and the Council’s response is provided below.

 

I would like to request details of profits made and monies spent on Heaton
Park for the individual years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date,
specifically;

Could you please provide a breakdown of all profits made by Manchester
City Council from events held within Heaton Park, such as Parklife (£xxx),
Lightopia (£xxx), Food Festival (£xxx) etc.
The council does not generate profits from events held in Heaton Park.

Could you please provide a breakdown of any other profits made through the
use of Heaton Park.
The council does not generate profit from other uses of Heaton Park.

Can you please provide the budget allocated to Heaton Park as well as the
actual costs spent.

The Council does not have individual budgets for each of its Parks. 
Instead, some of the money allocated to Parks and Open Spaces is held
within budgets for Wards and some is held in central budgets to cover
specialist functions, such as grounds maintenance costs, utility costs,
building maintenance/repair. etc. In order to locate, retrieve and extract
the money allocated to Heaton Park from the budgets allocated for Wards or
specialist functions an officer would need to carry out a manual search of
all the budget information. It is not possible to diss-aggregate all of
the central budgets for specialist functions to identify the spend on an
individual Park.

 

It is estimated that this would exceed the statutory cost limit of £450
which is calculated as being approximately 2.5 days of a Council officer’s
time to determine whether the Council holds the information, locate,
retrieve and extract the information.

If you require more information about the Council’s Fees & Charges Policy,
this may be downloaded from

[1]http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/script....

 

The Freedom of Information Act does not oblige the Council to comply with
requests that exceed this amount and therefore I am not able to comply
with this aspect of your request.

 

The Council would normally provide advice and assistance on how you could
narrow the scope of the request to bring it within the statutory limit. 
However, given how the parks budget is held, I regret on this occasion I
am unable to advise on how you could modify your request in any way that
would change the Council’s response.

Can you please provide a breakdown of the costs above

As above

 

Re-use of information

Information about the re-use of council information is available at
[2]https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/info/10...
If you wish to re-use this information, please follow the application
process described.  Your request will be considered in accordance with the
Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

 

Please note if you are not satisfied with this response you may ask for an
internal review.  If you wish an internal review to be undertaken you
should contact the Democratic Services Legal Team, whose address is, PO
Box 532, Town Hall, Manchester, M60 2LA, email:

[3][MCC request email] in the first instance.  A copy of the Council’s
information rights complaint procedure can be downloaded from
[4]http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/d....

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review process,
you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision.

 

You should primarily contact the Information Commissioner on the following
link: 

[5]www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints 

Alternatively, the Information Commissioner can also be contacted at: 

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Tel: 0303 123 1113

Fax: 01625 524510

[6]www.ico.org.uk

 

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me.  Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Kylie Ward 
Parks Lead

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