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Subject: Planning permission rejections due to protected species in
England - Acknowledgment

Message:

Dear Mr Griffiths

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI) ACT REQUEST

Thank you for your request for information. This e-mail is to confirm your
request has been received and logged. The reference number for your
request is FOi/6809.

We will respond within 20 working days following the date we received your
request.

After considering your request, we may refuse to supply some or all of the
information under a number of exemptions that exist in legislation.  For
details of these exemptions, please visit the Information Commissioner’s
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[2][Maidstone Borough Council request email]. Please remember to quote the
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Information Governance Team

Corporate Insight, Communities and Governance

Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6JQ

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Date:  22/04/2022

Ref: FOI/6809

Dear Mr Griffiths,

We are writing in regard to your information request.  In order to respond
to your request, we need clarification on the following point(s):

• How many planning permission requests were received last year?  Are
these applications that have been validated and would appear on the
Planning register?  Or are you enquiring about submissions that were
received also, but were closed before validation?

• How many planning permission requests were rejected last year?  Do you
mean refused permission?

• How many planning permission requests were rejected due to protected
species?  We would not be able to provide this information.  When we send
a list you would have to search each decision on the website to look for
this.

• 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?  We would not be able to provide this
information.  When we send a list you would have to search each decision
on the website to look for this.

Once we receive your clarification, we will begin preparing our response
to your request.  Until then, we have put FOI/6809 on hold.

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance Team

Corporate Insight, Communities and Governance

Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6JQ

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Date:  25 April 2022

Ref:  FOI/6809

Dear Mr Griffiths,

We are writing in regard to your information request.  In order to respond
to your request, we need clarification on the following point(s):

Please refer to the highlighted points in your email below.

Once we receive your clarification, we will begin preparing our response
to your request.  Until then, we have put FOI/6809 on hold.

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

Corporate Insight, Communities and Governance

Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6JQ

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