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Dear Susan Sollazzi

We acknowledge with thanks your request for information held by Bolton
Council received at this office on 17/03/2022_.

This request will be considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
/ Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004 as appropriate to your
request.

This may take up to 20 working days to be processed (although we will
endeavour to provide the information as quickly as possible).

Please be advised that if an exemption applies to the information that you
have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with
the provisions of the act.

Please retain the reference number RFI 010211 for any future enquiries
regarding this matter.

Many thanks

The Information Governance Team
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Dear Requester

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000/Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Further to your recent request for information received on 17^th March
2022. The Council has assessed if your request should be handled under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and concluded that it should be dealt with
under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), which is the
legislation that applies to requests for information which relate to the
environment, including the use of land and the built environment.

You requested:

How many homes for social rent are planned to be constructed within
Bolton's:

- Places for Everyone allocations (please separate out for each
allocation)

- Local Plan (please confirm the plan period and, where possible, the
local site)

Please provide the information by year or, if not possible, in 3-5 year
time-bands.

Our Response

Neither the Places for Everyone (PfE) nor the Local Plan provide any
detail down to the individual site level nor by year bands as requested.
Regulation 12(4)(a) of the EIR provides an exception to the release of
Environmental Information where the public authority does not hold that
information when an applicant’s request is received. In this case Bolton
Council does not hold the information you require.

In accordance with Regulation 9(1) of the Environmental Information
Regulations, “A public authority shall provide advice and assistance, so
far as it would be reasonable to expect the authority to do so.” I can
inform you that there are no housing allocations within the Places for
Everyone in Bolton, only 3 Green Belt releases for employment.  Policy
JP-H2 on affordability in PfE sets out to deliver across Greater
Manchester 50,000 affordable homes 2021- 2037, with at least 60% being for
social rent or affordable rent.  There is no breakdown of the 50,000 to
the district level.

Bolton’s [1]Core Strategy policy SC1 sets out a housing target of 694
dwellings per year 2008-2026.  In doing so the policy aims to ensure that
35% of housing delivered is “affordable” broken down into 75% for social
renting and 25% for intermediate housing.

Further information regarding the [2]Local Plan can be found online on the
Bolton Council website.

Under Regulation 11, you are entitled to make representations to us if it
appears that we have failed to comply with a requirement of the
Regulations in relation to your request. Representations must be made to
us no later than 40 working days after the date you believe we failed to
comply with such a requirement to [3][email address]

We will then consider your representations and supporting evidence and
decide if we have complied, notifying you of our decision as soon as
possible, and no later than 40 working days after the date of receipt of
your representations.

Under Regulation 18, you are then entitled to apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision as to whether, in any specified respect, your
request has not been dealt with in accordance with parts 2 and 3 of the
Regulations.

Should you wish to contact the Information Commissioner then you can write
to them at the following address:

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

[4]www.ico.org.uk

Tel: 0303 123 1113

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

Information Governance Team

Room 120, 1^st Floor, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

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