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Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,

Please can you indicate if you have had any discussions with Electromotive Diesel Ltd about building new facilities at their Longport Yard site in the last 12 months?

Have these discussions covered the risks around the removal of asbestos from old buildings?

When was the Longport Site last inspected by the council?

Yours faithfully,

A Brakespear

FOI, Stoke on Trent City Council

Dear Sir/Madam

 

Your request for information ref. SOT68676

 

Section 8(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 sets out the
requirements of a valid request and says that a request must, amongst
other things, 'state the name of the applicant and address for
correspondence'.

 

As you have not provided a name, your request is not valid under the terms
of the Act.

 

ICO guidance states “a title and/or first name with surname satisfies the
requirement for provision of a real name”.

 

If you wish to continue with your request, please contact
[1][Stoke on Trent City Council request email] and provide a name to which we can correspond.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Rights Team

 

Information Rights

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Floor 2 Civic Centre Glebe Street Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH

T: 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

E: [2][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

 

 

 

 

 
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Dear FOI,

Thank you, Angus is the name, please answer the question

Yours sincerely,

Angus Brakespear

FOI, Stoke on Trent City Council

Dear Mr Brakespear

 

Your request for information ref. SOTSOT68676

 

Thank you for your requests for information about Longport Yard site and
Longport station.

 

Under section 12 of the Act a local authority is able to aggregate
requests in the following circumstances:

 

·         two or more requests for information have been made to the same
public authority

·         they must be either from the same person, or from 'different
persons who appear to the public authority to be acting in concert or in
pursuance of a campaign'

·         the requests must relate to the same or similar information

·         they must have been received by the public authority within a
space of 60 consecutive working days

 

The local authority considers that your requests relating to Longport Yard
site and Longport station fall into this category and they will therefore
be aggregated into 1 request.

 

Your request was received by the Information Rights Team on 24 May 2018. 
This is being dealt with under the terms of the appropriate Information
Rights legislation.

 

In some circumstances we may charge for information.  If there is a charge
we will let you know, as you will have to pay it before we deal with your
request.

 

Some information does not have to be released under this legislation.  We
will check the information you have asked for and send you as much as
possible.  If another person or organisation is named in the information,
we may have to ask their opinion before we decide what we can give you.

 

You should expect to receive a response to your request on or before 22
June 2018 in line with the legislation's 20 working day statutory
deadline.

 

For your information we may publish the response to your request on our
City Council's website, which can be found at the following address:
[1]www.stoke.gov.uk.

 

If you have any queries about this email please do not hesitate to contact
us.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Rights

 

Information Rights

Floor 2 Civic Centre Glebe Street

Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH

City of Stoke-on-Trent 

t 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

e [2][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

 

 

 

 
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FOI, Stoke on Trent City Council

Dear Mr Brakespear

 

Your request for information ref. SOT68676 about Longport Yard site and
Longport station.

 

We have now considered your request and a copy of the information is
enclosed below.

 

The information supplied may be used for domestic or journalistic
purposes.  Its use for commercial gain including issuing to the public,
social media or computer blogs may be subject to the issue of a licence
under the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

 

We have checked with a number of departments and can advise:

 

Please can you indicate if you have had any discussions with Electromotive
Diesel Ltd about building new facilities at their Longport Yard site in
the last 12 months?

Response: We have not had any discussions as per your request above.

Have these discussions covered the risks around the removal of asbestos
from old buildings?

Response: N/A

When was the Longport Site last inspected by the council?

Response: We don’t have responsibility to inspect the Longport Site, so
haven’t ever done so as the work activity is one which comes under the
Health and Safety Executive’s remit.

Has the ORR contacted Stoke council about the number of incidents reported
in and around Longport Station?

Response: Similarly safety in and around Longport Station wouldn’t be our
responsibility and we have not had any contact from ORR.

 

 

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to: The Information Rights Manager, Information Rights
Team, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,
ST4 1HH, or email [1][Stoke on Trent City Council request email].

 

If, after contacting us, you are not content with the outcome, you may ask
the Information Commissioner for a decision.  Before doing this, please
see the following link for guidance from the Information Commissioner
relating to how to use your information rights responsibly and
effectively, to enable you to gain the best outcome from the process -
[2]http://ico.org.uk/for_the_public.

 

Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have already used our internal review procedure. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, tel: 0303 123
1113 or you can visit their website at [3]www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx.

 

You can find details of how we handle your personal information by
visiting [4]www.stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection.

Yours sincerely

 

Information Rights Team

 

Information Rights

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Floor 2  Civic Centre  Glebe Street  Stoke-on-Trent  ST4 1HH

T: 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

E: [5][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

 

Request

Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,

Please can you indicate if you have had any discussions with Electromotive
Diesel Ltd about building new facilities at their Longport Yard site in
the last 12 months?

Have these discussions covered the risks around the removal of asbestos
from old buildings?

When was the Longport Site last inspected by the council?

Has the ORR contacted Stoke council about the number of incidents reported
in and around Longport Station?

Yours faithfully,

A Brakespear

 

 

 

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email updates at [6]www.stoke.gov.uk/stayconnected

Save time, go online; pay your council tax, manage your benefits, book a
housing repair and report a pothole at a time and place that’s convenient
for you at www.stoke.gov.uk 

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