Re: Your request for information concerning:

Land Disposals

The Council aims to provide available information promptly and in any
event within 20 working days, unless, exceptionally, there is a need to
consider whether the information is exempt from disclosure.

I will contact you again soon in connection with your request.

Please quote the reference below if you contact the Council regarding this
request.

Customer Request Number:  FOI_4367

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Dear Mr Jones,

Apologies for the delay in responding.  I refer to your recent request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm that
the Council does hold this information, as detailed below.

Please detail land sales/disposals by Sunderland City Council (including
companies wholly owned by the council) since 1st January 2017, detailing,

1. Location

2. Size of land

3. Sale price

4. Entity the land was sold to

The two spreadsheets attached provide details of land and property sales
carried out by Sunderland Council and Siglion since 1^st January 2017.

With regard to the size of the land/property sold by the Council, although
the Council does hold some of this information, it would require a
significant manual exercise to be undertaken to extract the information
you have requested which would exceed the fees limit, therefore this
element of your request is refused under Section 12 (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) of the Freedom of Information Act.

With regard to the size of land and property as well as the identity of
purchasers, although Siglion does hold some of this information, it would
require a significant manual exercise to be undertaken to extract the
information you have requested which would exceed the fees limit,
therefore this element of your request is refused under Section 12
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) of the Freedom of Information Act.

Please note that the properties sold to Siglion by Sunderland Council were
done so as part of a bulk transfer of the entire portfolio as part of the
establishment of Siglion. The individual values attributed to each
property as part of this portfolio sale are confidential and commercially
sensitive information and its disclosure would, or would be likely to,
prejudice the commercial interests of the owner, Siglion Investments LLP
in its future management and dealings with the portfolio (Section 43(2) of
the 2000 Act). Therefore it is exempt information. The public interest in
maintaining this exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing
this information given the potential prejudice that would arise to Siglion
Investments LLP through disclosure and taking into account that the total
transfer for the entire portfolio has already been published.

This information has been provided in response to a Freedom of Information
request and this must be acknowledged in any subsequent use of the
information. In addition, the authority must be notified of any proposed
re-use of this information for commercial or other purposes.

I hope this is satisfactory. If, however, you are dissatisfied with our
response to your request for information, you can ask for the decision to
be reviewed in reply to this letter, however any request for review must
be submitted within 40 days of the date of this freedom of information
response. The review will be removed from the Directorate and coordinated
by the Council’s team of Solicitors. A request for review should be
directed, by email to [1][Sunderland City Council request email] by post or
by hand addressed to Business Support, Sunderland City Council, Civic
Centre, Burdon Road, Sunderland. SR2 7DN.

If this fails to resolve your concerns, then you have the right to apply
to the Information Commissioner for a decision.

Kind Regards

Angela

Angela Miller

Compliance Officer

City Development Directorate

Sunderland City Council

Email: [2][email address]

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