STANDARD TEXTS

These are examples of texts that have been and can be used in appropriate circumstances.

INITIAL DIRECT

Text1 and 1a [Text 1 is 10 yrs, 1a is 12]

Please provide me with details of and the current status for all cases in the last 12 years where the Council has sold land to a private developer and included an Overage agreement under which the Council would share in any profit made by the developer. I would prefer your response to be by email.

N J Harding, 1 St Ann’s Gardens, NW5 4ER. 020 7485 9397

INITIAL WHATDOYOUKNOW ROUTE

Find Council site (here or in bookmarks) and login if not already logged in

Enter council name in Search box

Enter in Heading, Overage and the following should appear, or copy it in “ Overage agreements for property developments in last 12 years “

Enter in Your Request after Dear x Council which should automatically show

“ Please provide me with details of and the current status for all cases in the last 12 years where the Council has sold land to a private developer and included an Overage agreement under which the Council would share in any profit made by the developer.

Yours truly, Nicholas Harding 020 7485 9397

Click on preview, then edit if necessary and send, NB if it includes my post code, Whatdothey know will encourage removing it, thus I have deleted the address in the above

CHASER WHEN RESPONSE OVERDUE

(eg Islington 30.7.16)

Dear Sirs

I refer to my FoI request reference number FOI 491191 of 27th June and shall be pleased to receive your response since I understand it to be overdue

Yours truly

Nick Harding

FOLLOW UP FOR MORE DETAIL

WESTMINSTER

Text2 [Westminster] [Ref no 1] [Site etc 2]

I refer to your FoI response reference [1] 1975737. Please, as a follow up or new FoI request, provide me with details of the current status of the [2] Chiltern Street Depot site including:

1. The amount received by the Council and how it was calculated.

2. If the contract has not been completed, the current situation.

3. The text of the overage agreement or overage clause in the land sale agreement

BRENT

28.6.16

Dear Mr Nixon

​

I refer to your FoI response reference

​ 5597296. Please, as a follow up or new FoI request, provide me with details for Overage on the Barham Estate, Wembley HAO and Former Ely, Wells & Camdbridge Courts, Kilburn, NW6 developments of the amount received ​or to be received ​by the Council and how it was calculated.

Could you please also provide me with the terms of the Overage agreement for all four developments or let me know where I can find them.

​Yours sincerely

TOWER HAMLETS

17.7.16 Follow up to Tower Hamlets using its form – all saved

This request relates to the helpful response provided to me per your reference FOI: 4837267. That request was made through the WhatDoTheyKnow route but I am now writing direct. Please treat this as either a follow up to the above or as a new request, whichever is appropriate:

Please provide me with (or inform me as to where I can find) the text of the Overage agreements for-

- Ocean Estate Regeneration Scheme (contract signed 2010)

- Ocean Estate Phase 2/Site H (contract signed 2014)

- Blackwell Reach Regeneration Project (BRRP)

Please provide me with (or inform me as to where I can find) the report(s) on the Ocean Estate Regeneration Scheme where Overage has been agreed and paid.

Appeal against Commercial Confidentiality refusal

HACKNEY

29 June 2016

Dear Sirs

Your ref. FOI16-0522-19568

I refer to the above FoI request and your refusal to provide information on overage agreements on the grounds of commercial sensitivity.

I am convinced it is in the public interest for disclosure to be made and that commercial confidentiality should not exist where public money is involved especially where land owned by the public is sold.

I have made a similar request for information to two other Inner London Boroughs and one Outer London Borough and in each case I have been provided with information, without question

Please therefore treat this letter as an appeal to be dealt with as a complaint through the Council’s Internal Review procedure.

Yours truly, Nicholas Harding

Appeal against Costs refusal

LEWISHAM

17.7.16

Your Reference 368487

I refer to the above FoI request and your refusal to provide information on overage agreements on the grounds of cost.

I am convinced it is in the public interest for disclosure to be made and that such a reason for refusal is not justified where public money is involved when land owned by the public is sold. It is in the interests of Councillors and the public that such information is available – as it is with other (though not all) inner London Boroughs who have responded to similar requests.

Please therefore treat this letter as an appeal to be dealt with as a complaint through the Council’s Internal Review procedure.

Yours truly, Nicholas Harding