Meetings with BT and Virgin with regards to Rotherhithe Broadband

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Dear Southwark Borough Council,

Could I have details of any meeting or correspondents between the Council or its representatives and BT or Virgin Media with regard to broadband provision in Rotherhithe, SE16 since September 1st 2014.

I would ideally like to view any meeting notes, agendas and emails. I am aware that some of this information may be commercially sensitive. If this is the case then a list of dates when contact or a meeting took place and the people addressed/present would be sufficient in these cases.

Yours faithfully,

D Belson

Dear Southwark Borough Council,

I sent this request on the 13 February 2015 but as yet have not heard anything,

Yours faithfully,

D Belson

Planning, Southwark Borough Council

Southwark Council - Information request

Our reference: 497449

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Dear Planning,

Just to note I did NOT request any details of my personal information held by the council.

Yours sincerely,

D Belson

Amiaka, Chima, Southwark Borough Council

Dear Mr Belson

Please ignore the request for personal information contained within the acknowledgement of your request.

Thanks

Chima Amiaka
Senior Strategist
Corporate Strategy

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Dear Southwark Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Southwark Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Meetings with BT and Virgin with regards to Rotherhithe Broadband'.

The request was made on the 13 February 2015 and has yet to have an appropriate response.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...

Yours faithfully,

D Belson

Planning, Southwark Borough Council

Southwark Council - Information request

Our reference: 497449

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Dear Southwark Borough Council,

RE: Ref: 497449: Meetings with BT and Virgin

Could you let me know how the effort to get a response to my initial request is going and the subsequent internal review request for the failure to respond?

The initial request was from 13th February 2015 and the request for the internal review was 23 March 2015.

Yours faithfully,

D Belson

Dear Planning,

RE: Ref: 497449: Meetings with BT and Virgin

Unfortunately the failure of Southwark Council to carry out a timely internal review and the lack of any response to emails or contact had left me no choice but refer this to the Information Commissioners Office.

Yours sincerely,

D Belson

Planning, Southwark Borough Council

Southwark Council - Information request

Our reference: 497449

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Dear Chima

Thank you for the response. I am aware of that BT has been meeting with Southwark but I was more interested in when these meetings have taken place and who attended. While I did state in the original request that the substance of the meetings would also be of interest I understood that this may be confidential.

I'll take from the lack of reference to Virgin Media that the Council has not met with them to discuss broadband issues in Rotherhithe.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to inform me about the BT trial as this was announced by BT back in November 2014 and is not relevant to the original question.

I am therefore still waiting for an appropriate response to my question and the results of the internal review as to why the question wasn't responded to in a timely manner.

Yours sincerely,

D Belson