This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 1457)
In mid August I contacted the council to ask if West Kirby Farmers' Market, as a voluntary community group supporting small local food producers, co...
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I had the unfortunate please of dealing with Lichfield Allotments Society. I took on a dilapidated plot in Oct of one year (it was a particularly cold...
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Margaret
I have added comments to each of the questions that you raised.
From: Margare...
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Mrs Campbell,
further to the information you have requested the information we hold is
as follows:-
1) How man...
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Hi Margaret,
What a great request. Sadly, I agree with Charlie, please put in a complaint to the ICO.
I hear the Communications Dept at Hackney Co...
If there are 35 people currently on the waiting lists, then why are the allotments at the rear of Losinga road being closed down and the tenant evicted...
Suggest next time you start to track how long people are having to wait for a plot.
Thank you for the prompt response.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Campbell
Dear Ms Campbell
After reviewing the what do you know website, I notice that you have the
above Freedom of Information request as outstanding....
Ben Major - the other allotments in the Waverley area are managed by the local Town or Parish Councils, and therefore WBC does not hold the data.
Hi Frank,
Sorry I've no idea, but you could submit a request to the council via this website to ask them yourself.
There has now been a reply to my personal email account as follows:
Dear Ms Campbell,
I apologise for the delay in responding to you but now attach...
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – FOI-13-0016
Dear Sir / Madam,
Following on from your email of 11^th March 2013 in which you queried o...
Dear Madam,
Re: Your Request for Information from Worthing Borough Council
I refer to your e-mail of 11 February 2013 asking for:
...
Dear Ms Campbell
Please find attached the Councils response to your Freedom of Information request, we apologise for the delay in providing you with t...
Dear Ms Campbell
Thank you for your request for information regarding Allotments and Waiting Lists
May I apologise for the delay in my reply I had se...
Response via private email:
Norwich City Council
City Hall
Norwich
NR2 1NH
28th February 2013
Your reference :..........................
Please see below.
From: Ian Parsonage
Sent: 27 February 2013 13:35
To: '[FOI #144815 email]'
Subject: FOI
Afternoon Margaret,
Than...
Dear Mrs Campbell,
Please see below response to your request for information;
1) 7
2) 75
3) 163
4) No
5) None
If you have any queries relating to h...
Margaret Campbell,
2) What is the total number of plots on these sites?
3,051 plots.
I dont know if you are aware but Brighton and Hove Council a...
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Using info from previous FOI requests to Slough. In:
- 2009 there were 18 people waiting per 100 plots in use
- 2011 - 35 people waiting per 100 p...
Not sure how these numbers relate to ECC's response two years ago
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/allotments_and_waiting_lists_99
The council's asset list might be useful. See https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/asset_list_land
Interesting that in line 437 0f the asset list :
Carr Lane Allotments (Disused) Hoylake is described as "Surplus Assets" when there are huge waiting l...
No mention of how the public interest is best served by witholding the information.
You could try asking again when the council makes its end of year accounts available for public inspection in about July. The accounts are open for sc...
Of course, Section 22 is not an absolute exemption. Data can only be withheld if the council has weighed the pros and cons and concluded that the publ...
But of course, under the Freedom of Information Act, the council has a duty to respond to ANY written request for information - you do not have to even...
Wirral's Climate Cahange Strategy is just in the making. See here https://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-services/council-and-democracy/have-your-say/consultati...
Ben Major - the other allotments in the Waverley area are managed by the local Town or Parish Councils, and therefore WBC does not hold the data.
Hi Frank,
Sorry I've no idea, but you could submit a request to the council via this website to ask them yourself.
The last part of this request is a tricky one - it'll be interesting to see how they answer.
There has now been a reply to my personal email account as follows:
Dear Ms Campbell,
I apologise for the delay in responding to you but now attach...
Response via private email:
Norwich City Council
City Hall
Norwich
NR2 1NH
28th February 2013
Your reference :..........................
Sue, the request was done as part of a survey of allotment waiting lists of the prinicipal local authorities of Scotland, England & Wales. You can dow...
Response from Rushmoor via personal email:
4th February 2013
Margaret Campbell
Dear Margaret
Re: Freedom of Information request – allotment data...
At my local site the people joining the waiting list 5 years ago are just getting to the top of the list - hence it might be said that there is a 5 yea...
... and also, it's ridiculous to suggest that every word in a lease aggreeement is confidential. There is public interest in taxpayers knowing what te...
When the council publishes its annual accounts, sometime in the next few months, they make them available for public inspection for a short period of t...
Guidance from the ICO is that:
"Where a public authority knows that a pseudonym has been used, as a matter of good practice it should still consider...
The council quotes a waiting time of 4-5 years - does this mean that the council is currently allocating plots to people who applied in approx 2007, wh...
You could try asking Wirral Partnership Homes, who took on a fair amount of Wirral Council's housing stock. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/wirral_...
Allotment waiting lists of the principal councils in England were surveyed about 12 months ago - see http://www.transitiontownwestkirby.org.uk/files/tt...
Although the response says that the rental cost is "2011 - £3.12 per square metre (perch approximately)", this must be a typo, as TDC's website says "T...
Response on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 to email prompt:
Dear Margaret
Thank you for bringing to my attention that an FOI request relating to allotment waitin...