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From: Matthew Lenton <[8][FOI #688722 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 9:07 PM
To: Enquiries <[9][email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Holliday's Plain

Dear The Crown Estate,
Within the last year or two, the land partly known as Holliday's Plain in
Windsor, started to be patrolled by wardens with the purpose of compelling
members of the public to leave the area. The point at which it bordered
with the footpath alongside the Legoland car park was then fenced off. The
previous fence had fallen down many years ago (10 or more) and small
numbers of the public had been in the habit of walking on this land.
My questions:
Which individual or body made the decision to patrol and then fence off
the land?
What was the reason the decision was made?
What benefit is it to the people of Windsor that this land is now in
accessible?
What are the long term plans for this land?

Yours faithfully,
Matthew Lenton

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Dear Mr Lenton

Your internal review (1237)

Please find attached a response to your internal review request.

Yours sincerely

Aimee Gasston   |   Freedom of Information Officer
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From: Matthew Lenton <[FOI #688722 email]>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020 9:25 PM
To: Aimee Gasston <[email address]>
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Holliday's
Plain

Dear Aimee Gasston,

Thank you for your response.

You stated that you hold no recorded information relevant to my questions.

Please would you clarify that the decision to start regular patrols of the
land by wardens in Land Rovers, despite, presumably, the fact that this
would have a financial cost, was made purely verbally and not documented
in any minutes, for example?

I understand that under normal circumstances fence repairs would be
carried out on a day to day basis, and one would suppose that broken
fences would normally be repaired within a reasonably short time period
following the need for the repair being noticed. Could you clarify that,
in this particular case, where a long stretch of fence was entirely
missing for a period of around ten years, the decision to carry out the
repair was again taken purely verbally, and no written record exists?

Furthermore, can you please confirm that there is no document held that
describes any long term plan or strategy for this piece of land?

Yours sincerely,

Matthew Lenton

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