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Dear Gwen Jones,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your request for information received on the 10th July 2023.
We have considered your request and enclose the following partial response
–

 

How many trees has the authority cut down on an annual basis, broken down
by year since 2013 (or if data is not held that far, the furthest it goes,
up to 2013).

 

Information not held.

 

How many trees has the authority planted on an annual basis, broken down
by year since 2013.

 

On this occasion we cannot supply all the information you have asked for
in respect of the tree planting data requested. Therefore, in accordance
with Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as
a Refusal Notice. 

 

We estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the
appropriate limit of £450 for local government, which is specified in the
Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees)
Regulations 2004. Therefore, we are refusing to supply this information
under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

In order to determine whether your request exceeds this limit, we must
multiply an estimate of the time we expect to take to comply with your
request by £25 per hour.  If the cost of complying with your request would
exceed the appropriate limit of £450 (more than 18 hours), we can refuse
your request.  In making this calculation we are able to include the time
taken to determine whether we hold the information and time taken to
locate, retrieve and extract the information.  The hourly rate of £25 per
hour is set by the Fees Regulations and is not dependent on the seniority
of the officer who carries out the work.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act, we a have a duty to provide advice
and assistance to help you narrow, reform or refocus your request so that
the cost of complying with it falls below the appropriate limit of £450. 
Unfortunately, on this occasion, as the information in not separately held
and would require the examination and extraction from individual records
and tree orders, we are unable to provide the detail requested without
exceeding the appropriate fees limit.

 

We supply this information based on your original request. If this is not
what you wanted or if you feel we have not fully understood your request,
please do not hesitate to contact me to clarify your exact requirements.

 

If you have any queries or concerns or are in any way dissatisfied with
the handling of your request, please contact [1][Caerphilly County Borough Council request email].

 

Yours sincerely

 

Uned Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth Gorfforaethol | Corporate Information
Governance Unit

Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili | Caerphilly County Borough Council

Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations
2004

 

You have the right to appeal against our decision

 

If you wish to appeal please set out If you are unhappy with that decision
in writing your grounds of appeal you have the right to appeal to:
and send to:
 
Corporate Information Governance
Unit Information Commissioner’s Office –
Caerphilly County Borough Council, Wales
Penallta House 2nd Floor, Churchill House
Tredomen Park Churchill Way
Hengoed. CF82 7PG Cardiff CF10 2HH

   

Appeals will be determined by an Tel: 0330 414 6421
appropriate senior officer.
Website: [2]www.ico.org.uk

Email: [3][email address]

 

Re-use of information without permission may infringe the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988. Re-use can include, but is not limited to,
making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies of the information
to a wider audience. If you would like to re-use copyright material owned
by Caerphilly County Borough Council, please contact us. Authorisation to
re-use copyright material not owned by this Authority should be sought
directly from the copyright owner.

 

How we will use your information

Caerphilly County Borough Council will process your request, the
information relevant to your request, your identity and contact details
for the purposes of providing you with a response.  A copy of your request
and your response will be kept for 3 years.  Some requests and responses
may be kept longer but this will be in an anonymised form.  

 

Your request including your identity and contact details will be
distributed to relevant service areas and elected members who may either
hold the information you have requested or are involved in the processing
of requests.  Other organisations and individuals who may be affected by
the disclosure of the information you have requested may be consulted
prior to a decision being made on the disclosure.

 

If you have made a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO)
or others in relation to the processing of your request, copies of your
request, response and any additional correspondence between you and
Caerphilly County Borough Council in relevant to your request may be
shared with them.

 

You have a number of rights in relation to your information including the
right of access to information we hold about you and the right of
complaint if you are unhappy with the way that we have handled your
request or your information.

For further information on how we process your information and your rights
please click the following link:

[4]https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/Caerphilly...

 

 

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