Planning permission rejections due to protected species in England
Dear Fenland District Council,
I'm writing to enquire about the following information in relation to your Local Planning Authority.
I would like to know:
• How many planning permission requests were received last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected due to protected species?
• Of these, how many were rejected due to: badgers, bats, birds, dormice, newts, invertebrates, natterjack toads, otters, reptiles, water voles, white-clawed crayfish, or other?
Yours faithfully,
John Griffiths, Cardiff
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FOI Officer
Fenland District Council
01354 654321
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Good morning, thank you for your recent request for information.
You asked:
• How many planning permission requests were received last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected due to protected
species?
• Of these, how many were rejected due to: badgers, bats, birds, dormice,
newts, invertebrates, natterjack toads, otters, reptiles, water voles,
white-clawed crayfish, or other?
Please be advised that the information requested is available on our
website as all planning applications are available for public view, via:
[1]https://www.publicaccess.fenland.gov.uk/...
To complete an advanced search, click on the ‘Advanced tab’. Here you can
search on various criteria and drill right down to what you want to
search; ‘Description keywords’, ‘Application types’, ‘Decisions’ ,
‘Dates’ etc.
In this instance you can start with the ‘Application type’ field. If you
populate this with the various types of applications and then you can
drill down further by inserting dates for the specific year and
‘decision’ types such as ‘Approve, ‘Grant’ or ‘Refuse’.
The application types that you may be interested in are:
Fenland District Council
Fenland District Land
Ful planning permission
Outline Planning Permission
Permission in principle
Reserved Matters
You will be able to see all the conditions on each application that was
refused.
If you require any further information regarding your request or are
unhappy with the response, you should contact the Member Services Officers
at Fenland District Council or e-mail [2][Fenland District Council request email] in the first
instance.
If after this, you are still dissatisfied with this decision, you may
request the Information Commissioner to investigate. The contact details
are:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
WILMSLOW
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545700
[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Fenland District Council
01354 654321
[4][Fenland District Council request email]
E-mails and any attachments from Fenland District Council (the Council)
are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the
sender immediately by replying to the e-mail, and then delete it without
making copies or using it in any other way or placing any reliance on it.
It is not intended that this e-mail shall constitute either an offer or
acceptance nor is it intended to form a contract between the Council and
the addressee or any third party.
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not
necessarily represent those of the Council unless otherwise specifically
stated.
Although any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses
before transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check
before opening attachments, since the Council accepts no responsibility
for loss or damage caused by software viruses.
Senders and recipients of e-mail should be aware that, under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation 2016, the Freedom of Information Act
2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and other related
legislation, the contents of e-mails may have to be disclosed in response
to a request.
To provide you with our services we will need to record personal
information, such as your e-mail address. This information will be kept
securely and only accessed by approved staff. We will not share your
information with anyone else without first telling you. If you would like
more details about how we protect personal information, then please
contact our Data Protection Officer.
E-mails and any attachments from Fenland District Council (the Council)
are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the
sender immediately by replying to the e-mail, and then delete it without
making copies or using it in any other way or placing any reliance on it.
It is not intended that this e-mail shall constitute either an offer or
acceptance nor is it intended to form a contract between the Council and
the addressee or any third party.
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not
necessarily represent those of the Council unless otherwise specifically
stated.
Although any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses
before transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check
before opening attachments, since the Council accepts no responsibility
for loss or damage caused by software viruses.
Senders and recipients of e-mail should be aware that, under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation 2016, the Freedom of Information Act
2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and other related
legislation, the contents of e-mails may have to be disclosed in response
to a request.
To provide you with our services we will need to record personal
information, such as your e-mail address. This information will be kept
securely and only accessed by approved staff. We will not share your
information with anyone else without first telling you. If you would like
more details about how we protect personal information, then please
contact our Data Protection Officer.
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