Wirral Transport Museum Lease
Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Please provide a copy of the lease for Wirral Transport Museum which the media report as having been granted to Big Heritage CIC.
Please also provide details of how the decision to grant the lease to them was reached.
Yours faithfully,
John Jones
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Many Thanks
Emma Murphy
Information Management Officer
We acknowledge receipt of your request for information.
Please note that whilst we aim to comply with the legislative timescales, we are currently dealing with a very high volume of requests which will lead to a delay in our response times. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. You may wish to check our website www.wirral.gov.uk to see if the information you require is currently published and available online.
The Information Management service will be closed over the Christmas period from 22 December 2023 - 2 January 2024. Any request received after Monday 27 November 2023 is likely to be delayed as a result of this holiday period.
Your patience is appreciated.
Many Thanks
Emma Murphy
Information Management Officer
Dear Mr Jones
Thank you for your recent Freedom of information FOI enquiry.
‘Please provide a copy of the lease for Wirral Transport Museum which the
media report as having been granted to Big Heritage CIC.
Please also provide details of how the decision to grant the lease to them
was reached.’
Please find in response to your request a copy of the lease.
The information to the decision can be found this link :
[1]http://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/ieDecisio...
Yours sincerely
Tracy O'Hare
Information Management Officer
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
Email:[2][Wirral Borough Council request email]
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Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Wirral Transport Museum Lease'.
Reasons for requesting an internal review:-
My original request was -
‘Please provide a copy of the lease for Wirral Transport Museum which the
media report as having been granted to Big Heritage CIC.
Please also provide details of how the decision to grant the lease to them
was reached.’
In response you have only provided a lease.
That lease references rent at various points but I cannot see what the rent is, please provide details of that.
Also you have not responded to my request for details of how the decision to grant the lease to them
was reached, please respond.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...
Yours faithfully,
John Jones
Dear Mr Jones
A copy of the lease was provided as per your request.
A link was also provided to the Committee documentation which provides a
response to the other part of your request regarding decision making.
It is the Council's position that we have responded in full to your
request.
As for your new question regarding rent, this will be logged as a new
request and a response will be issued within 20 working days.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you can complain to the
Information Commissioner's Office, [1]www.ico.org.uk
Yours sincerely
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Management Officer
Finance – Digital and Improvement
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
Email: [2][Wirral Borough Council request email]
Visit our website: [3]www.wirral.gov.uk
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
I do not think it was at all unreasonable for me to entirely expect that the lease would include detail of the rent and that the decision to grant the lease would include reference to a consideration of the level of the rent, and so to not give any thought to having to include additional specific questions within the request regarding that.
In dealing with foi requests you have a duty to advise and assist, including where you are privy to unusual information that clearly affects a request and which a requester could not possibly know, such as where a lease and the decision to grant a lease do not include reference to the actual rent and setting it at that level. Instead I yet again face unnecessary delays in obtaining information.
Please provide full detail of the rent and full information on the decision to grant the lease at such level of the rent.
Yours sincerely,
John Jones
Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Wirral Transport Museum Lease'.
Reasons - 20 working days since clarification foi request but no response.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...
Yours faithfully,
John Jones
Dear Mr Jones
We write in response to your FOI and subsequent internal review request,
on the basis that a response has not been issued within timescale.
Your request for “…… full detail of the rent and full information on the
decision to grant the lease at such level of the rent” is refused under
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, ‘information reasonably
accessible by other means’.
We would refer you to Section 5.3 of the report on this matter to the TCCL
Committee dated 9 March 2023 – link below
[1]https://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/document...
You have the right under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
to ask for an internal review of this response. Please direct any request
for an internal review to [2][Wirral Borough Council request email] and your
request will be allocated for review. If you are dissatisfied with the
outcome of an internal review you also have the right to complain to the
information Commissioner, at this link
[3]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Yours sincerely
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Management Officer
Finance – Digital and Improvement
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
Email: [4][Wirral Borough Council request email]
Visit our website: [5]www.wirral.gov.uk
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Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
At the end of paragraph 5.3 the report says –
‘Independent valuation advice has indicated that the typical market rent for museum attractions is a peppercorn, so based on the restricted use, the proposed rent does meet the market rent and therefore would meet the requirements under Section 123.’
Please provide a copy of that independent valuation advice.
Yours sincerely,
John Jones
Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Wirral Transport Museum Lease'.
REASONS -
It is now 22 working days since my follow up request of 02/03/2024 and you have not responded.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...
Yours faithfully,
John Jones
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
It is now 42 working days since my follow up request of 02/03/2024 and 21 working days since my 03/04/2024 request for an internal review due to your failure to respond, and you have still not responded.
Yours sincerely,
John Jones
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
ICO Decision Notice 18/07/2024
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...
Yours sincerely,
John Jones
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