Clapham Common Tennis courts-floodlights

18 November 2021

Your question

• please give details of the value of works orders and supplier details over last 3 years

Our response

• we consider that to comply with the request in full it would exceed the cost/time limit specified by s12 FOIA.

This is because values of work raised with the facilities term contractor (Engie and currently Integral) is not available as we would need to check all applications to locate these jobs. This would exceed the 18-hour threshold for responding to an FOI.

Section 12 (cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit)

12. — (1) Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

In this instance, we have decided that the process of determining whether the information is held will exceed the Appropriate Limit as provided by The Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

The Appropriate Limit applies to costs/time the Council reasonably expects to use in carrying out the following activities to comply with your request:

• Determine whether the information is held
• Locating the information or documents containing the information
• Retrieving such information or documents
• Extracting the information from the document

The Appropriate Limit is currently set at £450, which is the equivalent to 18 hours of work at £25 per hour.

The process of retrieving and collecting the data is therefore likely to exceed the Appropriate Limit.

In accordance with Section 17 FOIA this letter represents a partial Refusal Notice for this request.

Please find attached the information that falls within the time limit and can be released.