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Robert Whittaker

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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 132)

Register of land and building assets
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 26 September 2023.

Partially successful.

Please take this as confirmation that your Internal review request has been received. We aim to respond within 20 working days of receipt. Kind reg...
Post Office Branch List and Opening Hours
Response by Post Office Limited to Robert Whittaker on 11 September 2023.

Awaiting response.

Our ref: FOI2023/00532 Dear Robert Whittaker, Thank you for your request for information which was received on 10th September. Your request is bei...
Re-Use of Active MOT Test Stations List
Response by Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to Robert Whittaker on 27 July 2023.

Successful.

Good morning Mr Whittaker,   Thank you for your query to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).  I am responding to this query as the per...
Member Highways Budget Spend for Thetford
Response by Norfolk County Council to Robert Whittaker on 25 July 2023.

Successful.

  Dear Robert Whittaker Environmental Information Regulations Request ENQ-647326-Y5L5L3 I refer to your request for information dated 23 July 2023....
Underlying Data and Criteria for "Publication schemes: a snapshot of compliance" report
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Robert Whittaker on 24 May 2023.

Partially successful.

24 May 2023  Case Reference: IC-228714-S1C9  Dear Robert Whittaker   Thank you for your email of 14 May 2023 and I apologise for the delay in re...
Publicity for Local Plan "Issues and Options" Consultation
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 5 May 2023.

Successful.

    Dear Mr Whittaker   Please see our response to your FOI.   If you are not satisfied with our response, you may request an internal rev...
Draft Thetford Town Delivery Plan Consultation Responses
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 18 April 2023.

Successful.

  Dear Mr Whittaker   Please see our response to your FOI.   If you are not satisfied with our response, you may request an internal review...
Thetford Place Brand Project Outputs / Deliverables
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 17 April 2023.

Successful.

    Please see our response to your FOI.   If you are not satisfied with our response, you may request an internal review within forty working...
Grounds Maintenance Contract for Thetford
Follow up sent to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker on 17 February 2023.

Partially successful.

Dear Breckland Council, Many thanks for the further response. That would seem to cover Schedule 2 of the contract I requested, but I can't find the r...
New Abbey Meadows Path in Thetford
Response by Norfolk County Council to Robert Whittaker on 19 December 2022.

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Whittaker,   Further to below, a further search has located the attached additional post-meeting documents. A very small number of persona...
New Abbey Meadows Path in Thetford
Response by Greater Thetford Development Partnership to Robert Whittaker on 16 December 2022.

Successful.

    We are writing in respect of your enquiry for information held by the Authority under the provisions of the EIR/ Freedom of Information Act....
Funding for "new bridge works" on Cloverfields, Thetford
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 9 December 2022.

Information not held.

    We are writing in respect of your enquiry for information held by the Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.  Pleas...
Best Practice for Path Widths
Request to Norfolk County Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 24 November 2022.

Successful.

The "Safety at street works and road works" guidance referred to by Norfolk County Council in their response can be found at https://www.gov.uk/governm...
Public Access Defibrillator Locations
Internal review request sent to South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust by Robert Whittaker on 22 October 2022.

Awaiting internal review.

Dear Shams Iftikhar, Many thanks for your most recent response and the new spreadsheet. I am a little confused though since the new sheet contains a...
Post Office Branch List and Opening Hours
Request to Post Office Limited by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 October 2022.

Successful.

Thanks for the suggestions. There's an interesting history with FAD codes. Previously the Post Office / Royal Mail have explicitly refused to release t...
Public Rights of Way GIS Data
Response by Birmingham City Council to Robert Whittaker on 9 September 2022.

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Whittaker   Thank you for your email of 30 August 2022.   I can confirm our legal team are reviewing your request concerning re-use of mat...
List of GTP Board Members and Terms of Reference
Response by Greater Thetford Development Partnership to Robert Whittaker on 14 July 2022.

Successful.

    We are writing in respect of your enquiry for information held by the Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.  Pleas...
Official Street Names
Response by Breckland District Council to Robert Whittaker on 30 May 2022.

Partially successful.

We are writing re your email Yours sincerely FOI Team Freedom of Information Team W: www.breckland.gov.uk    Dear Mr Whittaker We write in response...
Lists of Historic and Parent UPRNs
Request to Geoplace LLP by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 22 March 2022.

Refused.

Decision notice from the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2022/4019637/ic-65493-v3w4.pdf (Complaint not upheld). I am...
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Data Collation / Management
Response by Food Standards Agency to Robert Whittaker on 15 March 2022.

Successful.

Dear Robert,   Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requesting information.  Please note due to th...
Pooled Business Rates Funding for Thetford Enterprise Park Roundabout
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by WhatDoTheyKnow on 3 February 2022.

Successful.

The response to the internal review that has been hidden due to containing personally identifiable information has been redacted and republished here a...
Use of Residual 'Moving Thetford Forward' Funds
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by WhatDoTheyKnow on 3 February 2022.

Successful.

The response to the internal review that has been hidden due to containing personally identifiable information has been redacted and republished here:...
Market Towns Initiative (2017-)
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by WhatDoTheyKnow on 3 February 2022.

Successful.

The response to the internal review that has been hidden due to containing personally identifiable information has been redacted and republished, along...
Renaming (or not) of Butten Island in Thetford
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by WhatDoTheyKnow on 3 February 2022.

Partially successful.

The response to the internal review that has been hidden due to containing personally identifiable information has been redacted and republished here:...
Licence Clarification for NSPL and ONSPD
Request to Office for National Statistics by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 30 January 2022.

Successful.

Just in case the page linked above gets removed at some point in the future, here is the key text from the ONS's response: "We can confirm this is co...
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This person's 106 annotations

Register of land and building assets
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 16 August 2023.

Partially successful.

ICO Decision Notice IC-218499-B6R8: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2023/4026153/ic-218499-b6r8.pdf The Commissioner’s de...
Speed limit clarification
Request to Norfolk County Council by Ian Powell. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 April 2023.

Successful.

The map link in the original request doesn't work for me, but presumably this is the junction in question: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.65683...
S.106 Agreements
Request to Breckland District Council by C Gordon. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 7 March 2023.

Information not held.

On reading the response here, it would appear that the Council does hold at least some of the information requested, though perhaps not in a readily ac...
Case management records
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Ganesh Sittampalam. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 December 2022.

Refused.

Since the ICO has previously refused to reveal what fields are present in the database (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/case_management_system_f...
Case management records
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Ganesh Sittampalam. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 December 2022.

Refused.

The correspondence in ICO Case number IC-151797-N3Z4 referenced above, which is where the internal review response was given, can be found at https://w...
Best Practice for Path Widths
Request to Norfolk County Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 24 November 2022.

Successful.

The "Safety at street works and road works" guidance referred to by Norfolk County Council in their response can be found at https://www.gov.uk/governm...
Post Office Branch List and Opening Hours
Request to Post Office Limited by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 October 2022.

Successful.

Thanks for the suggestions. There's an interesting history with FAD codes. Previously the Post Office / Royal Mail have explicitly refused to release t...
EU funding
Request to Breckland District Council by [Name Removed]. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 30 August 2022.

Successful.

In their response, the Council state " We have no records of receiving any funding directly from the European Union between 1974 (when Breckland Counci...
Expenditure on rights of way
Request to Norfolk County Council by Peter Jones. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 13 July 2022.

Refused.

Regarding your request for TROs on Public Rights of Way, you may be interested in a request I made a few years ago at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/re...
Demandinga Residetial Address for FOIA
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Emma Davis. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 30 June 2022.

Waiting clarification.

I don't believe what the ICO has written above regarding real names is strictly correct. FOIA s8 only requires the requestor to "states the name of the...
Lists of Historic and Parent UPRNs
Request to Geoplace LLP by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 22 March 2022.

Refused.

Decision notice from the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2022/4019637/ic-65493-v3w4.pdf (Complaint not upheld). I am...
Public Access Defibrillator locations
Request to South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust by Cj Malone. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 11 March 2022.

Refused.

It seems that the Public Authority here is confusing personal information with information supplied by a person. They have also failed to comply with F...
Grounds Maintenance Contract for Thetford
Request to Breckland District Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 28 February 2022.

Partially successful.

I've made an application to the Information Commissioner for a Decision under s50. It's case number IC-155305-B7K0. I'm currently waiting for a case of...
Licence Clarification for NSPL and ONSPD
Request to Office for National Statistics by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 30 January 2022.

Successful.

Just in case the page linked above gets removed at some point in the future, here is the key text from the ONS's response: "We can confirm this is co...
Statement of Community Involvement
Request to Breckland District Council by Sarah James. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 1 December 2021.

Long overdue.

I believe that the council's current SCI dates from 2013 and be found at https://www.breckland.gov.uk/media/2002/Statement-of-Community-Involvement-201...
Public Access Defibrillator locations
Request to South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust by Cj Malone. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 30 November 2021.

Refused.

As anyone who's done their GDPR training will know, it's only personal data if it relates to a living individual. I would suspect that most of the "Pri...
Emails
Request to Powys County Council by James Matthews. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 19 September 2021.

Awaiting classification.

Surely it is possibly be for the council to search directly on the 'to' and 'from' addresses of emails stored in their system. There may be a lot of em...
Lists of Historic and Parent UPRNs
Request to Geoplace LLP by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 3 August 2021.

Refused.

The ICO wrote to me on 26th July so say that a case officer had now been allocated to investigate my complaint. They have contacted Geoplace to give th...
Public Rights of Way GIS Data
Request to Lincolnshire County Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 15 June 2021.

Successful.

Many thanks Thomas - though I'm already aware of the Rowmaps website. Unfortunately, the data there is from 2014 (so is likely to be out of date now),...
Lists of Historic and Parent UPRNs
Request to Geoplace LLP by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 28 February 2021.

Refused.

Having not heard anything from the ICO for over three months, I contacted them again to see if/how things were progressing. It turns out that the case...
Thetford Traffic Regulation Orders
Request to Norfolk County Council by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 2 February 2021.

Partially successful.

Further documents, relating to Green Lane, can be found at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/highway_orders_on_green_lane_the
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2020)
Request to Breckland District Council by Jack Robinson. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 23 January 2021.

Awaiting classification.

Section 22 is a qualified exemption, which means that it is subject to a public interest test. In order to use the exemption, a Public Authority has to...
Lists of Historic and Parent UPRNs
Request to Geoplace LLP by Robert Whittaker. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 5 December 2020.

Refused.

Following Geoplace's rejection of my internal review, I submitted a s50 application to the Information Commissioner. I had a reply from the ICO on 11t...
Local Plan Working Group minutes
Request to Breckland District Council by Philip Spencer. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 3 September 2020.

Refused.

Given the ICO's guidance at https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1637/eir_material_in_the_course_of_completion.pdf and paragraphs 38-44...
Does the FOIA require a borough council or local authority to offer an internal review if the requestor is dissatisfied with the way his request has ben handled
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Dudley Jones. Annotated by Robert Whittaker on 12 November 2019.

Information not held.

Under the Freedom of Information Act itself, there is no legal requirement for a Public Authority to have a complaints / internal review procedure. H...
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