HS2 Property July
Mike Haville made this Freedom of Information request to High Speed Two (HS2) Limited This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear High Speed Two (HS2) Limited,
Thank you for the info supplied in FOI-23-5079 reply.
Please supply the latest data available for each of the questions 1 - 7 & the date for which the data is valid.
1) How much has been spent to date on property on phase 1?
2) What are the committed property liabilities to date on phase 1?
3) What are the estimated further property costs on phase 1?
4) What is total number of parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) permanently required for phase 1
5) What is total number of parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) temporarily required for phase 1
6) How many parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations)
required for the construction of phase one where there has been full & final settlement?
7) How many parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) on the
route of phase one which HS2 Ltd has taken temporary possession of?
Yours faithfully,
Mike Haville
Dear Mike Haville
Thank you for your email to HS2 Ltd. We are considering your request for information and aim to reply as soon as possible and no later than 22 August 2023.
Your reference number for the request is FOI-23-5113
Kind regards,
Briefings, Correspondence and Freedom of Information (BCFOI) advisor | HS2 Ltd
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)|[HS2 request email]| Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn High Speed Two (HS2) Limited , Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA | www.gov.uk/hs2
Dear Mike Haville
Please find attached our response to the above mentioned request.
Kind regards
Briefings, Correspondence and Freedom of Information Adviser
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)| [HS2 request email]| Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn High Speed Two (HS2) Limited , Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA | www.gov.uk/hs2
Dear FOI Request,
You have only said why you have not answered Q6, what about answers to the rest.
ICO has asked you not to do this.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Haville
Dear Mike Haville,
I acknowledge receipt of your correspondence requesting HS2 Ltd to review its response to your request for information concerning request reference FOI-23-5113.
The review will be conducted in accordance with HS2 Ltd’s review procedure. Every effort will be made to have a response to you within 20 working days. However, if it becomes clear that the review will not be completed by this date you will be advised.
Your reference number for the request is FOI-23-5113-R.
Yours sincerely
Briefings, Correspondence and FOI Adviser
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)|[HS2 request email]| Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA | www.gov.uk/hs2
Dear Mike Haville,
Please see attached correspondence with regards to your Internal Review
request (FOI-23-5113-R).
Many thanks in advance.
Al.
Alistair Hobbs | Briefing, Correspondence and FOI Adviser | HS2 Ltd
Pronouns: He, Him
Tel: 07876 578191
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High Speed Two (HS2) Limited , Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway,
Birmingham, B4 6GA | [2]www.gov.uk/hs2
Briefings, Correspondence and FOI Adviser
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)|[3][HS2 request email]|
[4]Facebook | [5]Twitter | [6]LinkedIn
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway,
Birmingham, B4 6GA | [7]www.gov.uk/hs2
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Dear FOI Request,
As said (but not answered), the ICO has warned you about this before, you combined the request, declined to answer 1 question out of 7 & used this as reason for not answering the other 6.
Please send answers to other 6 questions & revisit the internal review as you have not addressed my point as to why you did not answer other questions as raised in my request (see below).
Yours sincerely,
Mike Haville
Previous request -
Thanks for your reply, but in the midst of your verbose reply, you seem to have forgotten to reply to the initial FOI on liabilities, as this was a separate FOI, only combined by yourselves, please reply by return.
You might recall, that you have combined my FOI's in the past & then not answered the first based on some contrived problem with the second. The ICO took a dim view on that occasion'.
Dear Mike Haville
There appears to be some confusion here. This request was not combined with another, and the text you have sent was not the review - or relevant to - this current request.
I understand that the legislation can sometimes appear opaque, but our response to the request for review tried to explain - quoting the ICO's own guidance - why this request (that is FOI-23-5113) - was approached as it was. I apologise that we were not able provide an explanation to your satisfaction.
If you remain unhappy with the response to the review then - as advised in our correspondence - you should go to the ICO.
We will treat this correspondence as a new request and aim to reply as soon as possible and no later than 13 October 2023.
The reference number for this request is FOI-23-5197. For avoidance of doubt the new request is being taken as:
1) How much has been spent to date on property on phase 1?
2) What are the committed property liabilities to date on phase 1?
3) What are the estimated further property costs on phase 1?
4) What is total number of parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) permanently required for phase 1
5) What is total number of parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) temporarily required for phase 1
6) How many parcels of land (not including subsoil in tunnelling locations) on the route of phase one which HS2 Ltd has taken temporary possession of?
Thank you
Carl
Carl Bird | Senior Manager Briefings, Correspondence and FOI | HS2 Ltd
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)| [email address]| Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited , Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA | www.gov.uk/hs2
Dear Mike Haville
Please find attached our response to the above mentioned request.
Kind regards
Briefings, Correspondence and Freedom of Information Adviser
Tel: 08081 434 434 (Freephone number)| [HS2 request email]| Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited , Two Snow Hill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA | www.gov.uk/hs2
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