Dear Thomas Hambledon

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 22 September 2023.

Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.

The deadline for this will be 20 October 2023

The reference number for this request is Vale 23/569

I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at [Vale of White Horse District Council request email]

Kind regards

Information Governance Team

Legal & Democratic Services
Vale of White Horse District Council
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Dear Thomas Hambledon

Thank you for your Freedom of Information requests, which were received by
both South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council, logged under FOI  23/666 South and 23/569 Vale. Please note that
the two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint response.

Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) you
are entitled to be informed in writing whether the council holds the
information specified in your request and, if that is the case, to have
that information communicated to you unless any of the statutory
exemptions apply. I have considered your request and can confirm we do
hold some of the information asked and I do not believe any of the
statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please find below the
information you requested (where available):

Oxfordshire operates a two-tier system of local government. Therefore, any
MUGAs and netball courts within schools which might have been open for
public use within 2019/20 and/or 2021/22, would come under the remit of
the County Council. Therefore, you would need to contact [1]Oxfordshire
County Council for this information. 

Town and parish councils may also have responsibility for MUGAs and
netball courts within our districts. Therefore, in order to find out
whether they were open for public use in 2019/20 and/or 2021/22, you will
need to contact the town and parish councils directly. You can download a
list of town and parish councils along with their contact details from the
[2]South Oxfordshire District Council website and [3]Vale of White Horse 
District Council website

The information provided below for questions 1 and 2 relates only to
MUGA’s that the district councils own, or own and are responsible for the
operation and maintenance of.

Please could I request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the
following information:

1. How many multi-use games areas (MUGAs) available for public use were
there in your local authority area during the financial year:

    SODC VoWHDC
a. 2019/20 0 4, 1 of which incorporates a
netball court
b. 2022/23 1- which incorporates a netball 4* 1 of which incorporates a
court netball court

*  Plus the council also owns one [4]MUGA which incorporates a netball
court. However, it is leased to Boundary Park Sports Association.

2. How many netball courts available for public use were there in your
local authority area during the financial year:

    SODC VoWHDC
a. 2019/20 0 0
b. 2022/23 0 0*

* The council also owns 1 netball court. However, it is leased to Boundary
Park Sports Association.

3. How much financial support (grants/funding) was given to netball clubs
during the financial year 2022/23.

Oxfordshire operates a two-tier system of local government. Therefore,
some financial support may have been provided by Oxfordshire County
Council. The town and parish councils may also have provided
grants/funding.

  SODC VoWHDC
2022/23 £0 £0

Please treat this as the councils’ formal response under the 2000 Act.  If
you are not satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your
request, you can make a request for an internal review by emailing
[5][email address] and [6][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]  within 40 working
days from the date we issued our response. If you remain dissatisfied
after following that procedure, you have the right under Section 50 of the
2000 Act to complain to the Information Commissioner if you feel the
council has not dealt with your request properly. You can contact the
Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
(telephone number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information
at [7]www.ico.org.uk.

Kind regards

Information Governance Team

Legal & Democratic Services

South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council

Visit us at [8]southoxon.gov.uk and [9]whitehorsedc.gov.uk

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[10]South Oxfordshire District Council and [11]Vale of White Horse
District Council

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