Oakwood Park fence

Dear Mr Atkins

Thank you for your email below.

Kent County Council acknowledges your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Assuming KCC holds this information, we
will endeavour to supply the data to you as soon as possible but no later
than 19^th April 2017 (20 working days from date of receipt).

We will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
the information. Please quote our reference - FOI/17/0522 - in any
communication regarding this particular request.

Best regards

Carly Wattle | Information Access Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ | Phone 03000 417061 | Fax 03000 420303 | 
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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Dear Mr Atkins

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000, relating to Oakwood Park Fence. I am pleased
to provide the response below:

I am writing to advise you that after consulting with the appropriate
departments, I have established that the information you require is not
held by Kent County Council. This is because the fence construction is not
a Kent County Council project and was undertaken by the school themselves.
We do not hold any information on planning/design costs, plans or cost for
the fence itself. You would need to, if you have not already contact the
school direct. For ease I have provided a link with school contact
details.

[1]http://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.SchoolSea...

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
[2]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
on our website. Please quote reference FOI/17/0522.

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner’s website [3]http://www.ico.org.uk/concerns.

Yours sincerely

Kirsty-Leigh Robertson| Information Access Officer | Information
Resilience & Transparency Team | Room 2.71, Sessions House, Maidstone |
Phone 03000 418301 | Fax 03000 420303 |
[4]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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Dear Mr Atkins

Thank you for your email.

I have reviewed Kent County Council's handling of your request for
information and my findings are as follows:-

On receipt of a request for information, the Freedom of Information Act
2000 puts obligations on public authorities like KCC to tell the applicant
whether it holds any information falling within the scope of their
request; and if it does, to provide that information subject to any fees
and/or exemptions to disclosure that may apply.

As explained in our response to your request, the fence construction was
not a KCC project and the schools undertook this themselves; the schools
are able to act autonomously in this regard since both are academies and
as such independent from the Local Education Authority’s control.
Therefore KCC does not hold any information on planning/design costs, or
the plans/cost for the fence itself. The Act does not oblige KCC to create
information to satisfy requests for information, nor does it put any
obligation on KCC to obtain that information from other public authorities
on an applicant's behalf.  

The Act does put an obligation on public authorities to advise and assist
applicants, which KCC fulfilled by directing you to the organisations,
namely the three schools (who are public authorities in their own right
for the purposes of FOIA), that may hold the information you require. Thus
allowing you to contact them yourself if you had not already done so.
Alternatively, we could have transferred the request to the three schools
by forwarding your original 20th March email on to them, but this is not
KCC's usual practice, neither is it a statutory obligation.

I have provided links to the schools' webpages to facilitate you making
contact with them and submitting a request for information direct to them,
if you haven’t already.

[1]http://www.opgs.org/Pages/default.aspx

[2]http://www.saa.woodard.co.uk/98/contact-...

[3]http://www.ssscs.co.uk/

Therefore my decision is that KCC has fully complied with legislation and
I do not uphold your complaint. If you are still unhappy, you can appeal
to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should you wish
to pursue this course of action, are available from the Information
Commissioner’s website [4]http://ico.org.uk/concerns, or you can phone the
ICO Helpline on 0303 123 1113.

Best regards

Caroline Dodge | Team Leader | Information Resilience & Transparency Team
| Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House, Maidstone, ME14
1XQ | Phone 03000 416033 | Fax 03000 420303 | 
[5]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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