Land-filling arrangements
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please supply any information, and where appropriate copies of relevant documents, relating to any contracts entered into by the authority, or any company that is owned, operated or connected to the authority, relating to the land-filling arrangements in
relation to waste arising in the authority's area.
This is a request made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and I look forward to receiving a prompt response and in any event no later than 20 working days from this date of this request as you are legally obliged.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Gavin Grewal
Our reference: 1088 FOI
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for your request of 18 December 2008 in which you asked for the
following information:
Please supply any information, and where appropriate copies of
relevant documents, relating to any contracts entered into by the
authority, or any company that is owned, operated or connected to
the authority, relating to the land-filling arrangements in
relation to waste arising in the authority's area.
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested as soon as possible and in any event within the next 20 working
days in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an
exemption applies. This means that the council will respond to you by 20
January 2009 at the latest.
There may be a fee payable for this information. You will be informed if
this is the case and you can decide if you wish to proceed with your
request.
If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.
Please contact me if you have any have further enquiries about your
request. I would be grateful if you could quote the reference number given
at the top of this email.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
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Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Our reference: 1088 EIR
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for your correspondence received on 18 December 2008 in which
you requested the following information:
Please supply any information, and where appropriate copies of
relevant documents, relating to any contracts entered into by the
authority, or any company that is owned, operated or connected to
the authority, relating to the land-filling arrangements in
relation to waste arising in the authority's area.
Please note that your request is actually being dealt with under the
Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) not the Freedom of Information
(FOI) Act as it relates to the environments. I apologise for any confusion
this may cause.
Unfortunately the information you have requested of significant volume and
to provide it may exceed the *appropriate limit* of £ 450 for local
authorities, as stated in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Therefore to provide this
information the council may have to charge a substantial fee.
To help the council meet your request could you please answer the
following question(s) in a much details as possible:
o Please can you give a specific time period you are interested in?
o By implication your request includes:
o Tender and procurement exercises
o Monitoring and maintenance work
o Pubic consultation exercises, objections, complaints and other
correspondence
o Any other information relating to disposal of waste by
Oxfordshire County Council.
o Clearly this is an enormous amount of information; it would be almost
impossible for the council to comply with this request and it would be
extremely expensive. Do you have specific kinds of information in
mind, or do you intend your request to cover all of this information?
Please note if we do not receive further clarification from you in
relation to this request by 19 March 2009 the council will consider your
request closed.
Once we have these details your enquiry will be considered and you will
receive the information requested, unless an exemption applies.
If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.
Please contact me if you would like some advice on refining your request.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Dear Mr Willoughby
To be clear I would like a copy of the current contract, and documents, relating to waste disposal by means of the land-filling of waste arising in the county, together with information as to tonnages.
I do not require information relating to:
tender and procurement exercises;
monitoring and maintenance work; and
public consultation exercises, objections, complaints and other correspondence.
I am happy to provide you with a CD so that the information can be sent to me by this method if it is not possible to provide it electronically. This, I am sure you will appreciate, would significantly reduce any costs involved.
If the authority still considers it necessary to charge a fee for providing the information requested, then I will expect a schedule of the authority's charges to be made available pursuant to clause 8(8)(a) Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
I look forward to receiving the information without delay.
Yours sincerely,
Gavin Grewal
Our reference: 1088 EIR
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for your email of 20 January clarifying your request for
information. Please note that Oxfordshire County Council will be
processing your request under the Environmental Information Regulations
(EIR) not the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act as originally stated. I
apologise for any confusion caused. The EIR applies rather than the FOI
Act because your request is for environmental information.
Oxfordshire County Council has several different landfill contracts across
Oxfordshire; there is no single contract for the county.
If the council provides you with a list of these sites, the contracts
covered by them and the tonnages at each site, would you be able to
specify the documents you require?
Please note if we do not receive further clarification from you in
relation to this request by 23 March 2009 the council will consider your
request closed.
Once we have these details your enquiry will be considered and you will
receive the information requested, unless an exception applies.
If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.
Please contact me if you would like some advice on refining your request.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Dear Mr Willoughby,
Please proceed to supply a list of sites and the contracts that cover them together with information as to tonnages. I will then specify the contracts that I require.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Gavin Grewal
Our reference: 1088 EIR
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for your email of 26 January regarding your request for
information. Please find below details of the contracts and tonnages at
each of Oxfordshire's waste disposal sites. Please let me know if you
require any further information about these sites.
Site Contract Financial Year
05/06 06/07 07/08
Ardley Ardley 42,681.70 42,547.48 44,323.31
Dix Pit Dix 45,403.95 42,569.55 39,265.44
Sutton Courtenay Southern / Oxfordshire 92,077.84 85,431.11 82,864.71
Waste Limited
Alkerton Oxfordshire Waste 17,194.82 16,948.06 18,453.29
Limited
Banbury Transfer 4,025.24 3,529.00 568.00
Station
Total 201,383.55 191,025.20 185,474.75
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Dear Mr Willoughby,
Thank you for this information.
Please provide copies of each of the contracts referred to above.
Yours sincerely,
Gavin Grewal
Thank you for your email.
I am currently on secondment until 8 May 2009. My work patterns are as
follows:
Monday, Tuesday all day and Wednesday afternoon - Acting Corporate Records
Manager with the council's Records Management Team.
Wednesday morning and Thursday, Friday all day - Senior Information
Officer with the council's Freedom of Information Team.
If your message is urgent please use the relevant team email address:
[Oxfordshire County Council request email] or
[email address]
Otherwise I will respond to your message when I am back in the office.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [email address] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Our reference: 1088 EIR
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for the clarification of your request received on 24 February
2009 in which you requested the following information:
Copies of contracts relating to the following sites in Oxfordshire:
Site Contract
Ardley Ardley
Dix Pit Dix
Sutton Courtenay Southern / Oxfordshire Waste Limited
Alkerton Oxfordshire Waste Limited
Banbury Transfer Station
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested as soon as possible and in any event within the next 20 working
days in compliance with the Environmental Information Regulations 2004,
unless an exception applies. This means that the council will respond to
you by 24 March 2009 at the latest.
There may be a fee payable for this information. You will be informed if
this is the case and you can decide if you wish to proceed with your
request.
If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.
Please contact me if you have any have further enquiries about your
request. I would be grateful if you could quote the reference number given
at the top of this letter.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: [2]www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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Our reference: 1088 EIR
Dear Mr Grewal
Thank you for the clarification of your request received on 24 February
2009 in which you requested the following information:
Copies of contracts relating to the following sites in Oxfordshire:
Site Contract
Ardley Ardley
Dix Pit Dix
Sutton Courtenay Southern / Oxfordshire Waste Limited
Alkerton Oxfordshire Waste Limited
Banbury Transfer Station
After considering your request I have to inform you that there is a fee
payable for the information you have asked for. The fee is in accordance
with the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) Regulations 2004.
The estimated cost for complying with your request is likely to be in the
region of £ 29.40. On receipt of this sum your request will be processed.
Full details of how this sum was reached can be found in the table below.
Please make a cheque or postal order payable to Oxfordshire County
Council.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Activity | Information to be provided | Cost |
|--------------------+------------------------------------------------+--------|
| o Photocopying | o 294 copies at £0.10 per A4 black and white |£ 29.40|
| | photocopy | |
|--------------------+------------------------------------------------+--------|
| o Post and package| No charge |£ 0.00 |
|--------------------+------------------------------------------------+--------|
|Total estimated cost| |£ 29.40|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Please note, in order to respond to this request the Council must receive
payment in full by 25 June 2009 otherwise the council will consider your
request closed.
Please let me know if you have further enquiries. I would be grateful if
you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Senior Information Officer
Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND
Tel: 01865 810584
Fax: 01865 247805
E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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