Southwark Council - Information request
 
Our reference: 36402677  
 
 
Dear Mr Flynn,
 
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
 
Thank you for your request for information, that was received on 4 March
2025.

The request is as follows:

Please supply me with the Affordable Housing Schedule (Schedule 5 pg
111-120) of the Master Development Agreement(MDA) of Canada Water, between
the British Land (BL) development companies for Canada Water and the
London Borough of Southwark, dated 10 May 2018.

I note that the MDA is available on the Council's website, but has many
redacted parts, said to be of a 'commercially sensitive nature'. These
include the Affordable Housing Schedule. Whether or not this the case, the
public interest in disclosure outweighs any justification for keeping this
schedule redacted, given the size of the scheme, the involvement of
council-owned land and the developer's recent application to review the
affordable housing offer. 

 
We are dealing with your request under the Environmental Information
Regulations 2004 and we aim to send a response by 2 April 2025.
 
The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 may restrict the release of
some or all of the information you have requested. We will carry out an
assessment and if any exceptions apply to some or all of the information
then we might not provide that information to you. We will inform you if
this is the case and advise you of your rights to request an internal
review and to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
 
We will also advise you if we cannot provide you with the information
requested for any other reason together with the reason(s) why and details
of how you may appeal (if appropriate).
 
Yours sincerely, 
 
 
Martyna Plewniak
Senior Information Officer
Governance & Assurance
020 7525 1585
[email address]
 
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Southwark Council - Information request
 
Our reference: 36402677  
 
 
Dear Mr Flynn,
 
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
 
Thank you for your request received on 4 March 2025 concerning:
 
Please supply me with the Affordable Housing Schedule (Schedule 5 pg
111-120) of the Master Development Agreement(MDA) of Canada Water, between
the British Land (BL) development companies for Canada Water and the
London Borough of Southwark, dated 10 May 2018.

I note that the MDA is available on the Council's website, but has many
redacted parts, said to be of a 'commercially sensitive nature'. These
include the Affordable Housing Schedule. Whether or not this the case, the
public interest in disclosure outweighs any justification for keeping this
schedule redacted, given the size of the scheme, the involvement of
council-owned land and the developer's recent application to review the
affordable housing offer..
 
We are now considering the request but we need more time to process it.
Please note that the Regulations allow us 20 working days to respond to
your request from the date of its receipt.  However, it is occasionally
necessary to extend the 20 working day time limit for issuing a response
due to the volume or complexity of the request. In this case, I regret
that we must extend the time limit for responding by a further five
working days before we can finalise this response following a consultation
with the relevant third party. 
 
 
We will now try to respond to you by 9 April 2025.
 
We apologise sincerely for the delay in issuing this response and thank
you for your patience at the same time. 
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an Internal Review. You should request this review within
40 working days of receiving this response, by contacting [1][Southwark
Borough Council request email] .
 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your Internal Review, you have
a right of appeal directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted our Internal Review procedure, and you should contact
them within six weeks of the outcome of the Internal Review at: 

The Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 0330 123 1113
Website: [2]www.ico.org.uk

 
Yours sincerely,
 
 
Martyna Plewniak
Senior Information Officer
Governance & Assurance
020 7525 1585
[email address]
 
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Southwark Council - Information request
 
Our reference: 36402677  
 
 
Dear Mr Flynn,
 
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
 
Thank you for your request received on 4 March 2025 concerning:
 
Please supply me with the Affordable Housing Schedule (Schedule 5 pg
111-120) of the Master Development Agreement(MDA) of Canada Water, between
the British Land (BL) development companies for Canada Water and the
London Borough of Southwark, dated 10 May 2018.

I note that the MDA is available on the Council's website, but has many
redacted parts, said to be of a 'commercially sensitive nature'. These
include the Affordable Housing Schedule. Whether or not this the case, the
public interest in disclosure outweighs any justification for keeping this
schedule redacted, given the size of the scheme, the involvement of
council-owned land and the developer's recent application to review the
affordable housing offer..
 
We are now considering the request but we need more time to finalise it.
Please note that the Regulations allow us 20 working days to respond to
your request from the date of its receipt.  However, it is occasionally
necessary to extend the 20 working day time limit for issuing a response
due to the volume or complexity of the request. In this case, I regret
that we must extend the time limit for responding by a further three
working days before we can issue the response. Therefore, we will now try
to respond to you by 14 April 2025.
 
We apologise sincerely for the delay in issuing this response and thank
you for your patience at the same time. 
 
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an Internal Review. You should request this review within
40 working days of receiving this response, by contacting [1][Southwark
Borough Council request email] .
 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your Internal Review, you have
a right of appeal directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted our Internal Review procedure, and you should contact
them within six weeks of the outcome of the Internal Review at: 

The Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 0330 123 1113
Website: [2]www.ico.org.uk

 
Yours sincerely,
 
 
Martyna Plewniak
Senior Information Officer
Governance & Assurance
020 7525 1585
[email address]
 
NOTE: Please do not edit the subject line when replying to this email.
 
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Southwark Council - Information request
 
Our reference: 36402677  
 
 
Dear Mr Flynn,
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 4 March 2025.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
 
Martyna Plewniak
Senior Information Officer
Governance & Assurance
020 7525 1585
[email address]
 
NOTE: Please do not edit the subject line when replying to this email.
 
Southwark Council
This email contains proprietary confidential information some or all of
which may be legally privileged and/or subject to the provisions of
privacy legislation. It is intended solely for the addressee.
If you are not the intended recipient, an addressing or transmission error
has misdirected this e-mail; you must not use, disclose, copy, print or
disseminate the information contained within this e-mail. Please notify
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Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender,
except where the sender specifically states these to be the views of
Southwark Council.
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have been taken to ensure that no viruses are present. Southwark Council
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