Register of events attended

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Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,
Please can you tell me which councillors have registered that they have attended events at Wrotham Park Estate whilst Robert Byng (from Wrotham Park) and James Craig (from Griggs Homes) have been present. Be these events held by South Hertfordshire Business Club or any other events within the past ten years.

Yours faithfully,

Julia Dunsford

foi, Hertsmere Borough Council

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Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,
By law, you should have responded to my information request by 21 June 2021 and that deadline has now passed. I am now requesting an internal review as to why I haven't received this information.

Yours faithfully,

Julia Dunsford

Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,
You were due to reply to this request by Monday 21st June 2021. I would like to request an internal review as to why this information has not been given to me in the time it is meant to be.

Yours faithfully,

Julia Dunsford

foi, Hertsmere Borough Council

 

Dear Ms Dunsford,

 

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request which you
sent to the council by your email dated 21.5.21.  On behalf of the council
I apologise for the late reply.  This request was confused with your
request which you sent to us by email dated 25.4.21 and which was answered
by the Head of Legal and Democratic Services by his email dated 29.4.21.

Your request has now been considered under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

 

Your Request:

 

Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,

Please can you tell me which councillors have registered that they have
attended events at Wrotham Park Estate whilst Robert Byng (from Wrotham
Park) and James Craig (from Griggs Homes) have been present. Be these
events held by South Hertfordshire Business Club or any other events
within the past ten years.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Julia Dunsford

 

 

Our Response:

 

The council does not hold the information you have requested. 

 

Please note that if the council did hold this information, it would be
exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) and (3A) Freedom of Information
Act 2000 since it is personal data, disclosure of which would contravene
the data protection principles set out at Article 5 (1) (a) and (b) UK
GDPR.

 

 

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Please include the above reference number on all correspondence related to
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Yours sincerely,

Shane Kenny

Information Officer

Hertsmere Borough Council | Civic Offices | Elstree Way | Borehamwood |
Herts | WD6 1WA
t: 020 8207 2277 extension 2620

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Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Hertsmere Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Register of events attended'.

You have told me you do hold hold the information I have requested and that if the council did hold this information, it would be exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) and (3A) Freedom of Information Act 2000 since it is personal data, disclosure of which would contravene the data protection principles set out at Article 5 (1) (a) and (b) UK GDPR.

Membership and attendance of South Hertfordshire Business Club events is public information and not personal information as evidenced by Councillor Paul Morris listing South Hertfordshire Business Club in his Register of Interests.

This information is of public interest and if Robert Byng of Wrotham Park Estates and developers such as James Craig from Griggs Homes are mixing with Hertsmere Borough Councillors who are developing our new local plan and get to vote on our new local plan then this is definitely of public interest and not personal interest.

Any selection of Wrotham Park Estate land in Hertsmere's new local plan would put the whole validity of the new local plan at risk, as would the granting of planning permission by HBC for Griggs Homes on Wrotham Park estate land at Cowley Hill Stables

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Yours faithfully,

Julia Dunsford

Harvey Patterson, Hertsmere Borough Council

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Dear Madam

 

I refer to your request  for an internal review of the Council’s response
in relation to the above request.

 

For ease of access  I set out below  your original request  together  with
 a copy of the  Council’s  response. I then set out my  decision in
relation  to  your request for an internal review .

 

Your Request

 

Please can you tell me which councillors have registered that they have
attended events at Wrotham Park Estate whilst Robert Byng (from Wrotham
Park) and James Craig (from Griggs Homes) have been present. Be these
events held by South Hertfordshire Business Club or any other events
within the past ten years.

 

 

Council’s Response to Your Request

 

The council does not hold the information you have requested. 

 

Please note that if the council did hold this information, it would be
exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) and (3A) Freedom of Information
Act 2000 since it is personal data, disclosure of which would contravene
the data protection principles set out at Article 5 (1) (a) and (b) UK
GDPR.

 

Decision on Internal Review

 

I have reviewed the Council’s  records I and  I can confirm  that the
Council holds no information  that  any councillor has registered  that
 have attended events at Wrotham Park Estate whilst Robert Byng (from
Wrotham Park) and James Craig (from Griggs Homes) have been present.   

 

Please note  that  the  Council’s Register of Members Interest  is a
public document  that can be inspected  free of charge   by appointment
 at the Civic Offices. Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts WD6  1WA   during
normal  office opening hours. Alternatively,  the declarations made by 
individual councillors  and entered in the Register of Members Interests
 can be found on the ‘Your Councillor’ pages of the Council’s web-site by
clicking on the link given below :-

 

[1]Your Councillors (moderngov.co.uk)

 

If you are dissatisfied with my decision on your request  for an  internal
review, you have the right to complain  to the Information Commissioner
at:-

 

Information Commissioners Office

Wycliffe House, Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire    SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113           Website:  [2]www.ico.org.uk

 

Please include the above reference number on all correspondence related to
this request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Harvey

Harvey Patterson

Head of Legal  & Democratic Services 

Hertsmere Borough Council

DD: 0208 207 7472

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