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touch. 

We are a Borough Council which provides services to residents in Oadby and
Wigston. Our services include keeping the streets clean and collecting
rubbish, renting out social housing (council houses and flats), providing
leisure facilities and play areas and processing council tax, business
rates and housing benefits. We deal with local planning applications,
issue licenses for taxis and licensed premises, look after parks and open
spaces, and parking around our borough.  

Please note - services including primary and secondary education, roads,
pavements and street lighting, libraries and adult education, social
services and care, fall outside our service area and are provided by
Leicestershire County Council.

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Compliance Team which is responsible for: 

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the next steps in the process.  

We endeavour to respond to all Data Protection Act and Freedom of
Information Requests within 20 working days. If we require anything
further from you we will be in touch.  

We are a Borough Council which provides services to residents in Oadby and
Wigston. Our services include keeping the streets clean and collecting
rubbish, renting out social housing (council houses and flats), providing
leisure facilities and play areas and processing council tax, business
rates and housing benefits. We deal with local planning applications,
issue licenses for taxis and licensed premises, look after parks and open
spaces, and parking in Council-owned car parks around our
borough. Services including primary and secondary education, roads,
pavements and street lighting, libraries and adult education, social
services and care, fall outside our service area and are provided by
Leicestershire County Council.  

We also endeavour to respond to all EIR requests within 20 working days.
Please note, all EIR requests are answered in the order in which they are
received and we would appreciate if responses are only chased if we have
exceeded the 20-day statutory time limit.  

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I write further to your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (“the Act”) which we have now considered. Our
response is outlined below and/or attached.

Our Ref: FOI/23/100

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│In order to assist my research into Local Authorities who generate and │
│export electricity from their own energy assets I would be grateful if │
│you could answer the following questions. I am particularly looking at │
│grid connected assets for example solar farms, wind turbines and waste │
│to energy plants, rather than rooftop solar installations which mostly │
│supply electricity to the building they occupy. I’d be grateful if you │
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Kind regards,

Kristen Perkins

Policy, Compliance and Data Protection Officer

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