Land purchases
caebrwyn made this Freedom of Information request to Carmarthenshire County Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Mr Tillman,
Please provide details of land, property or leaseholds purchased by Carmarthenshire council from January 2014 to date.
I would be grateful for a full breakdown containing as much of the following information as possible:
Amount paid by the council for each site
Location and size of each site
Purpose of the purchase
Identity of vendor
Legal/valuation/conveyancing costs
Please include and specify all land or property purchased under Compulsory Purchase Orders and the associated legal costs.
Thank you
Jacqui Thompson
Dear Ms Thompson,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 2nd
February, 2018, and is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.
We are therefore required to provide a response within 20 working days,
which will be on or before 2nd March, 2018.
If we require clarification we will also contact you as soon as we can –
please note that the timescale for response specified above may be subject
to change if this is the case.
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any
queries, remembering to quote the reference number above in any
communications.
Yours sincerely
John Tillman
Swyddog Gwybodaeth a Diogelu Data
Adran Adfywio a Pholisi
Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin
Information & Data Protection Officer
Regeneration & Leisure Department
Carmarthenshire County Council
Mewnol/Internal: 4127
Allanol/External: 01267 224127
Dear Mrs Thompson,
I refer to your request for information, which was received on 2^nd
February, 2018 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.
The specific information you requested was as follows:
“Please provide details of land, property or leaseholds purchased by
Carmarthenshire council from January 2014 to date.
I would be grateful for a full breakdown containing as much of the
following information as possible:
Amount paid by the council for each site Location and size of each site
Purpose of the purchase Identity of vendor Legal/valuation/conveyancing
costs Please include and specify all land or property purchased under
Compulsory Purchase Orders and the associated legal costs.”
In response, please find attached a file containing the relevant
information held by the Council. Legal costs are not available.
The information we hold regarding vendors is being withheld on the basis
that it is already accessible via the HM Land Registry.
[1]http://www.landregistry-service.com/
Under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, a public authority is
not obliged to provide information which is already reasonably accessible
to the applicant by other means, which in this case is via the Land
Registry as set out above.
As I am refusing to provide some of the requested information on the basis
that it is already publicly available, please consider this email to be a
formal notice of refusal as required by Section 16 of the Act.
If you are unhappy with this decision or the way in which your request has
been dealt with, you have the right to make an appeal in the first
instance to:
The Head of Administration & Law
Carmarthenshire County Council
County Hall
Carmarthen
SA31 1JP
Email: [2][email address]
If you remain unhappy with the handling of your request or complaint, you
have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: [3]www.ico.gov.uk
There is no charge for making an appeal.
Yours sincerely
John Tillman
Swyddog Gwybodaeth a Diogelu Data
Adran y Prif Weithredwr
Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin
Information & Data Protection Officer
Chief Executive's Department
Carmarthenshire County Council
Mewnol/Internal: 4127
Allanol/External: 01267 224127
References
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1. http://www.landregistry-service.com/
2. mailto:[email address]
3. http://www.ico.gov.uk/
Dear Mr Tillman,
Thank you for the response.
I would be grateful if you could clarify why you are not able to provide the legal costs; if this is constitutes a refusal, please provide the exemptions which you are relying upon,
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Thompson
Dear Mrs Thompson,
Thank you for your email. This is receiving attention and a further response will be provided as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
John Tillman
Swyddog Gwybodaeth a Diogelu Data
Adran Adfywio a Pholisi
Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin
Information & Data Protection Officer
Regeneration & Leisure Department
Carmarthenshire County Council
Mewnol/Internal: 4127
Allanol/External: 01267 224127
Dear Mr Tillman,
Thank you for the acknowledgement dated 2nd March.
I'd be grateful for a response at your earliest convenience.
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Thompson
Dear Mrs Thompson,
Thank you for your email. We have been able to retrieve legal costs for many of the transactions detailed in the information already released to you.
Some costs will have been paid via a regional team and we are in the process of obtaining any information held on our behalf by that team.
Once I have all of the information held I will provide a further response.
I apologise for the delay in providing a full response to your request.
Yours sincerely
John Tillman
Swyddog Gwybodaeth a Diogelu Data
Adran Adfywio a Pholisi
Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin
Information & Data Protection Officer
Regeneration & Leisure Department
Carmarthenshire County Council
Mewnol/Internal: 4127
Allanol/External: 01267 224127
Dear Mr Tillman,
Thank you for the update,
I look forward to your full response.
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Thompson
Dear Mr Tillman,
I'd be grateful for an update to this request, and a timescale for your full response,
Thank you,
Jacqui Thompson
Dear Mrs Thompson,
I refer to your email of 2nd March, 2018 following our response to your
request on the same date. Please accept my apologies for the delay in
providing this further response.
You queried why legal costs had been omitted from our reply to your
request.
I apologise for this. Internal legal costs are held by our Legal services
team but were not recorded against the records of transactions held by our
Property services. We have now cross referenced these records where held
and are able to supply the attached information.
Yours sincerely
John Tillman
Swyddog Gwybodaeth a Diogelu Data
Adran Adfywio a Pholisi
Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin
Information & Data Protection Officer
Regeneration & Leisure Department
Carmarthenshire County Council
Mewnol/Internal: 4127
Allanol/External: 01267 224127
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