Dear Abdul Hai,

I confirm receipt of your information request. We are dealing with this and will respond to you in due course.

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Regards,

Evelyne Lindley
Information Governance Team

Kirklees Council
Governance Service
PO Box 1720
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 9EL

Telephone: 01484 221000 (voice activated switchboard – please ask for Freedom of Information)

For more information about how we deal with your personal data, please see the Kirklees Council privacy notice

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Dear Abdul Hai

 

Re: 30908 Tree planting data

 

I am writing in response to your request dated 4 February 2023.  This has
been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

May I first of all apologise for the delay in responding to your request.

 

You asked for the following information:

 

Since the 2020 financial year can you publish.

1. All documents related to where to plant trees?

2. Long term management plans for planted trees?

3. Survival rates of planted trees?

 

The Council’s response to your specific questions is set out below:

 

 1. All documents related to where to plant trees?

 

The documents we would use to determine details surrounding tree planting,
types, number processes etc are available to view online, specifically the
UK Forest Standard and White Rose Forest action plan. Please see links
below:

 

• [1]Action Plan - White Rose Forest
• [2]The UK Forestry Standard - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

 2. Long term management plans for planted trees?

 

The Council does hold the requested information but considers this is
exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, because the
information is reasonably accessible to you by other means, because it is
already in the public domain.

 

Section 21 of the Act provides that:

 

(1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise
than under section 1 is exempt information.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—

(a) information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though
it is accessible only on payment, and

(b) information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the
applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other
person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than
by making the information available for inspection) to members of the
public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a
public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be
regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the
information is available from the public authority itself on request,
unless the information is made available in accordance with the
authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in,
or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

 

Here is where the Council publishes information about
[3]council-owned-tree-and-woodland-management-policy.pdf (kirklees.gov.uk)

 

The supplementary documents referred to in section 5.1 can be found using
the links below;

 

• [4]kirklees-tree-works-guidance.pdf
• [5]tree-risk-management-framework.pdf (kirklees.gov.uk)

 

 3. Survival rates of planted trees?

 

The Council does not hold this information.

 

If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Requests for internal reviews should
be submitted within 2 months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer,
PO Box 1720, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 9EL.  Alternatively, you can send an email
to: [6][email address]. 

 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right
under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt
with in accordance with the requirements of the Act.  The Information
Commissioner’s website is at [7]www.ico.org.uk and gives more information
about the role and duties of the Commissioner.  The ICO telephone helpline
on 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745 is available between 9am and 5pm, Monday
to Friday.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lindsay Foody

Principal Information Governance Officer

 

Information Governance Team

Kirklees Council, Governance Service

 

Telephone: 01484 221000 (voice activated switchboard – please ask for
Freedom of Information)

 

For more information about how we deal with your personal data, please see
the [8]Kirklees Council privacy notice

 

 

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