Dear Mr Katko,

We have considered your request and our view is that your request is
invalid. Your request contains a question rather than a specific request
for information. I have however forwarded your enquiry to the Planning
Service to be dealt with as a normal ‘course of business' enquiry. Please
expect a response within ten working days.

It may be helpful for me to explaint that the Freedom of Information Act
gives people the right to access recorded information. The Act does not
give people a right to be given answers to questions that they would like
to put to a local authority if this would mean creating new information or
would involve giving opinion or judgement that is not already recorded.
Although you have indicated that you wish to make a request for
information, further to your 'right to know' contained in section 1 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), your email contains an enquiry
rather than a specific request for recorded information held by Haringey
Council.

Guidance given by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) states that
requests which are not for recorded information, but instead ask
questions, such as "please explain your policy on x" or "please explain
your decision to do y" are not requests for recorded information and
therefore should be treated as routine correspondence." The ICO has
produced guidance for people who wish to make a request for information
under the Freedom of Information Act; you can access it by following this
link: [1]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...

Kind regards,

Feedback & Information Governance

Shared Service Centre | Central Team

Haringey Council 

10th Floor, Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TR

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