Zoological Collections: Inspections and Licensing

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Dear Weymouth and Portland Borough Council,

I am writing to make a request for all the information that I am entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act (2000). Please send me the following information held in relation to the implementation of the Zoo Licensing Act by your authority:
1. For all licensed premises, a copy of the current zoo license, showing all conditions.
2. For all licensed premises, a copy of all zoo inspectors’ reports (Formal, informal and special) produced since 2011, with dates completed.
3. For all premises a copy of all reports produced by your officers since 2011 during their annual zoo inspections, and dates completed.
4. For all exempted premises (as approved under 14.1.a of the zoo licensing act) a copy of their most recent inspection report, with date, by your officer and a copy of the original letter submitted requesting their exemption under 14.1.a.
I would like the above information to be provided to me via email in either pdf, word document or as scanned documents. If this request is unclear I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs necessary. If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such agreement has not been signed.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within 20 working days after you receive this request. I would be grateful if you could confirm by return email that you have received this request. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks for your time and effort in preparing these documents for my research project.

Yours faithfully,
Katy Baily

FOI Weymouth,

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Dear Ms Baily,
Thank you for your information access request: we aim to complete this
within 20 working days from 04/12/2017. Please quote your reference number
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Yours sincerely,
The Customer Services Team at Dorset Councils Partnership, a partnership
between North Dorset District Council, West Dorset District Council and
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council

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Lisa Camp,

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Dear Ms Katy Baily,

 

Regarding the following Information Access Request:

 

I am writing to make a request for all the information that I am entitled
to under the Freedom of Information Act (2000). Please send me the
following information held in relation to the implementation of the Zoo
Licensing Act by your authority:

1.         For all licensed premises, a copy of the current zoo license,
showing all conditions.  Licence issued March 2015

2.         For all licensed premises, a copy of all zoo inspectors’
reports (Formal, informal and special) produced since 2011, with dates
completed.  28th Oct 2014 & 6th March 2012 were the last visits with a Zoo
Inspector

3.         For all premises a copy of all reports produced by your
officers since 2011 during their annual zoo inspections, and dates
completed.  Unless there are specific issues identified at the time of the
informal annual visit – officers do not produce a report. The last report
was therefore provided in 2012. There is no formal requirement to produce
a report for informal visits.

4.         For all exempted premises (as approved under 14.1.a of the zoo
licensing act) a copy of their most recent inspection report, with date,
by your officer and a copy of the original letter submitted requesting
their exemption under 14.1.a.

I would like the above information to be provided to me via email in
either pdf, word document or as scanned documents.  No inspections, we
just request stock lists annually.

 

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to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at Information Commissioner’s Office,
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Yours sincerely

 

Lisa Camp

Customer Services Support Officer

 

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