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Alexandria mooney

Dear Sport England,

I would like to request all correspondence between Sport England and Manhester City Council concerning the Hough End Fields (postcode M20 1HP) between 1st January 2010 and 9th July 2021. This should include all email/ written correspondence as well as details and minutes for any meetings held between Sport England and Manchester City Council employees. Please be clear if you have redacted any information and state the reasons for this.

Yours faithfully,

Alexandria mooney

FOI, Sport England

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Dear Ms Mooney,

 

Thank you for your recent email in which you request information on
correspondence concerning the Hough End Fields. Your email was received on
09/07/2021 and has been passed to the Information Governance Team as we
are responsible for responding to requests for information held by Sport
England.

As a public body, Sport England is subject to the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and we will handle your request in accordance with
the terms set out in the Act. We will provide you with our full response
promptly and usually within twenty working days. In some circumstances we
may extend this to allow us to consider the public interest; if this is
necessary in your case I will write to you again and explain why.

At this stage it is important to advise you that Sport England, just like
many other organisations and the nation generally, is dealing with the
severe impact of the coronavirus pandemic on human, physical and
technological resources. These impacts have led to delays in the delivery
of our timescales. Should this affect the delivery of a response to your
request we will advise you and request an extension.

I will be in touch again in due course and in any event not later than
10/08/2021.

In the meantime, please feel free to contact me if I can be of any further
assistance.

Kind regards,

THE FOI TEAM

We have updated our Privacy Statement to reflect the recent changes to
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Sport England

Dear Ms Mooney,

 

I write further to your request for information about correspondence
concerning Hough End Fields. As your request is about information relating
to the potential development of land, we have considered it under the
terms of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (the EI
Regulations) and our response is set out below.

 

Having carefully considered your request, we have identified that the
information you are seeking is spread across several planning
applications. In total we have estimated that the amount of time required
to identify all the information you are seeking would cost £450 which
represents the cost of one person spending more than 18 hours identifying,
locating, retrieving and extracting information falling within the scope
of your request. Regulation 12(4)(b) allows a public authority to refuse
requests that are ‘manifestly unreasonable’ i.e. where dealing with a
request would create unreasonable costs or an unreasonable diversion of
resources.

 

Furthermore our Planning team have identified that the postcode given in
your request does not relate to Hough End. Apparently the postcode M20 1HP
is for St Christopher’s Close which is in a residential area to the east
of the Hough End Leisure Centre (M20 1NA), Hough End Centre (M21 7SX), and
Hough End Fields (M20 1NA). In order to assist you we will need to know
the specific site that your FOI request is for. Please note that if your
FOI request relates to Hough End Fields, we do not hold any correspondence
associated with that site.  Regulation 12(4)(c) allows a public authority
to refuse requests that are ‘formulated in too general a manner’ i.e. a
request that can have more than one possible interpretation or is not
specific enough to allow the public authority to identify what has been
asked for.

 

In view of this we have determined that we are unable to comply with your
request by virtue of Regulations 12 (4) (b) and (c) of the EI Regulations.
Regulation 12 (4) (b) is a qualified exception, so we are required to
carry out a public interest test to determine whether the public interest
in disclosure outweighs the public interest in withholding it.

 

There is a presumption that information should be released unless there
are compelling reasons to withhold it. The public interest test requires a
public body to balance the public interest in withholding the information
against the public interest presumption in favour of disclosure. We have
done this by carrying out a scoring system which is set out in a tabular
form below. We have used a scale of 0-5, with 0 having the least weight
and 5 having the most weight, to determine the weight for and against each
public interest factor. The public interest factors in favour of or
against disclosure are derived from guidance and legislation and they have
also been included in the table.

 

Factors in Factors in
favour of disclosing the favour of withholding the
information information
The inherent public interest in Dealing with manifestly unreasonable
ensuring openness and transparency requests can place a strain on
in the work of resources and get in the way of
public authorities delivering
public authorities including Sport mainstream services or answering
England other requests. 

   

PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 3 PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 5

   

Prejudice would occur, effect severe Prejudice would occur, effect severe
The public interest in ensuring that
the public authority is able to
The public interest in ensuring that provide responses to
Sport England can deliberate on planning matters without creating a
important issues, including those chilling effect. The public interest
connected with carrying out its to create a safe space for planning
statutory functions. advice.

   

PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 3 PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 5

   

Prejudice would occur, effect severe Prejudice would occur, effect severe

 
The public interest in ensuring more The public interest in protecting
effective public participation in public authorities from exposure to a
environmental decision making, all disproportionate burden or to an
of which ultimately contribute to a unjustified level of distress,
better environment disruption or irritation in handling
information requests
 
 
PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 3
PUBLIC INTEREST WEIGHTING: 5
 
 
Prejudice would occur, effect severe
Prejudice would occur, effect severe

 

 

Having considered all the above factors, we are satisfied that the balance
lies in favour of withholding the information on this occasion. We are
therefore refusing to disclose the information you have requested.

 

Please see the links below for further information on why we have refused
your request and advice on what you can do if you wish to submit a
different request.

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This completes our response to your information request. In reaching our
decision we have consulted the relevant guidance issued by the Information
Commissioner’s Office and available on its website at [3]www.ico.org.uk

 

As a public body, Sport England is subject to the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and this means you are entitled to complain if you
are unhappy with the way we have handled your information request and/or
ask us to review our decision. All internal reviews are carried out by a
colleague who has not previously been involved in the handling of your
information request and we aim to complete them within twenty working
days.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of our Internal Review you have
the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner. Generally speaking
the Information Commissioner will not be able to consider an appeal unless
you have first exhausted the Internal Review procedure provided by Sport
England.

 

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

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I hope this is helpful.

 

Kind regards,

 

THE FOI TEAM

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data protection law but rest assured, we will continue looking after your
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