Dear Ms Davis,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 16 September 2014.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which shows the area covered:
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pages/explo...<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Page...>.
The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk>.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Town Clerk’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1209
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk>

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Dear Ms Davis,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following your request for information of 16 September 2014, and our
acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

Express Consent will be required under the Town & Country Planning
(Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2007 for any large illuminated
advertising screen on the exterior of a building.  Listed building consent
would be required also if the building is listed. 

Information on how to apply for Express Consent for an advertisement and
for listed building consent is available on the City’s web site and
applications may be made through the Planning Portal. Any application for
Express Consent to display an advertisement would be considered having
regard to the impact on amenity, taking into account the general
characteristics of the locality including the presence of any heritage
assets, public safety, relevant policies of the Development Plan and any
other relevant factors.

Please see the following links for information:

[1]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/...

[2]http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/wps/por...

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact me.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
request under the FOIA, please make your complaint in writing to our
Complaints Officer at [3][email address].

For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure.

If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints Procedure, you are still
dissatisfied, you may request the Information Commissioner to investigate.
The Information Commissioner is a Crown appointment, responsible for
monitoring compliance with the FOIA. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [5]www.ico.org.uk         

Please note that the Act applies to the CoL as a local authority, police
authority and port health authority.

CoL holds the copyright in this communication. The supply of it does not
give you a right to re-use it in a way that would infringe that copyright,
for example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public
or to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely,

Performance & Standards Assistant

Department of the Built Environment

Phone      020 7606 3030

[6]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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