Hackney Council

Planning Applications (FOI-5027)

Message from Hackney Council

20 December 2019

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Re: Freedom of Information Request.

Thank you for your request for information un*****r the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 11 *****cember 2019. Your request has been consi*****red and our response is in bold below.

You requested the following:

Please find below a *****tailed outline of non-personal information I am requesting un*****r The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI). Where possible the information should be presented in Excel (.xls) format and should be provi*****d for each ward within the Borough at yearly intervals for the period 2015-19.
1. Number of planning applications received, approved and rejected (both major and minor) in each ward in relation to:
a. Dwellings
b. Offices, research and *****velopment, light industry
c. General industry, storage warehousing
d. Retail and service
e. All others
2. For each *****velopment typology outlined above the number of planning applications approved or rejected in each ward that were:
a. Major applications *****ci*****d within the agreed timeframes (13-weeks)
b. Minor applications *****ci*****d within the agreed timeframes (8-weeks).
3. The overall number of resi*****nts and other non-statutory stakehol*****rs in each ward who submitted comments objecting to or supporting applications from the *****velopment typologies outlined above.
4. The overall number of comments received by resi*****nts and other non-statutory stakehol*****rs in each ward in relation to consultation on any Full Regulation 19 Publication of Local Plans or similar.
5. The overall number of noise complaints received from resi*****nts in each ward relating to construction noise.

The Council’s Response

1. Number of planning applications received, approved and rejected (both major and minor) in each ward in relation to:
a. Dwellings
b. Offices, research and *****velopment, light industry
c. General industry, storage warehousing
d. Retail and service
e. All others

and

2. For each *****velopment typology outlined above the number of planning applications approved or rejected in each ward that were:

a. Major applications *****ci*****d within the agreed timeframes (13-weeks)
b. Minor applications *****ci*****d within the agreed timeframes (8-weeks).

All planning applications and associated *****cisions, can be viewed at the below link. Here you can search for planning applications by entering relevant *****tails on application type, dates and ward *****tails. http://planning.hackney.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/general search.aspx

3. The overall number of resi*****nts and other non-statutory stakehol*****rs in each ward who submitted comments objecting to or supporting applications from the *****velopment typologies outlined above.
Unfortunately the information you request is not in an easily retrievable format nor is there an automated mechanism that would allow us to easily collate the required data.

The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate limit and fees) Regulations 2004 has set the appropriate limit as £450 based on a charge at £25 per hour. Section 12 of the Act states that the council is not obliged to comply with a request of information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

We are unable to fulfil your request within the time limit as we do not have the means of searching by this specific criteria.

4. The overall number of comments received by resi*****nts and other non-statutory stakehol*****rs in each ward in relation to consultation on any Full Regulation 19 Publication of Local Plans or similar.
The representations received on the Regulation 19 Version of the Council"s Local Plan can be viewed from the following link: https://hackney.gov.uk/lp33-exam

5. The overall number of noise complaints received from resi*****nts in each ward relating to construction noise.

We would like to confirm that the London Borough of Hackney holds this information. This information is exempt un*****r Section 12 un*****r the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as it is has estimated that it would take longer than the appropriate hours (i.e 18 hours) un*****r Act to provi***** the data.

EXEMPTIONN

The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 has set the appropriate limit as £450 based on a charge at £25 per hour. Section 12 of the Act states that the Council is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the costs of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

The appropriate limit is represented by the estimated cost of one person spending 2½ working days (or 18 hours) in *****termining whether the Council holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information requested. Consequently the Council is not obliged to respond to your request un*****r the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The information requested is of a broad nature and as such, the Council would need to examine each individual inspection report for the years requested to extract the information. which would involve over 4500 reports. Furthermore, it is unlikely to be easily retrievable and the complaints and service requests would need to be collated from archived information and require Officers having to go through these records.

It is consi*****red that to process your request would require consi*****rable technical expertise and time, significantly more than the FOI limit.

In this case, your request has been refused, as the information is not all available electronically and is not held in one place as part of a structured filing system.

You may submit a refined request but this will be treated a new Freedom of Information Act request.

Appeals & Complaints Procedure

If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to appeal, please write to the Information Management Team and this will be *****alt with through our Internal Review procedure.

Information Management Team - Governance

London Borough of Hackney

Hackney Service Centre

1 Hillman Street

London E8 1DY

[email protected]

Your request for an internal review should be submitted to us within 40 working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received after this time will only be consi*****red at the discretion of the Council.

If you are still not satisfied following the Internal Review, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at the contact *****tails provi*****d below.

Information Commissioner"s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

www.ico.org.uk

Yours sincerely

Information Management Team

ICT Services
London Borough of Hackney

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