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Dear Susan Davis

I acknowledge safe receipt of your email of today timed at 11.35.

My colleague Andy Gillespie, in our Parks Department, is currently dealing with your FOI request.
I have asked Andy to respond to your email below.

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Yours sincerley
Hannah Miles
Reading Borough Council
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Dear Susan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your recent request received in this office on 7th March, my
apologies for the delay in responding to you.

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

If you run an ecological protection scheme for road verges in your
area, please could you provide me with the following details:

a) what protection measures a verge receives when it is included in
the scheme

b) the list of verges covered by the scheme (and their locations -
road name/number and six figure OS grid references would be fine)

c) for each verge, the specific reasons why the verge has been
included in the scheme - i.e. the notable species found there, or
the NVC community present

If you do not run such a scheme in your area, but you are aware
that another body does, please could you refer me to them instead.

Our response is as follows:-

Reading is predominantly an urban area and we are not aware of any species
rich verges in the Borough and do not run a verge ecological protection
scheme nor are aware of any in Reading.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request for information
under the Freedom of Information Act then you may ask for an internal
review under the Council's complaints procedure. Please make a request in
writing to Mr C Brooks, Head of Legal Services, at Reading Borough
Council. If you request such a review and are not content with its
outcome, then you have a right to apply directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

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