Adam Chichester-Clark replied to South Somerset FOI Team:
Dear FOI Team,
Thank you very much for your acknowledgement of my FOIA application dated 17 August 2020 and for your gracious apology for the delay in its acknowledgment in your email of 23 September.
As I said, I am genuinely sympathetic to any delay caused by the pandemic. However, may I also just say that the FOI Team’s help in providing the information and documentation sought in the Application is of real and urgent importance to myself and, indeed, many others in Yarlington and the prescribed statutory period for provision of the information required expired on 14 September 2020. It is, therefore, an application that I must now respectfully ask you to deal with fully and as soon as possible.
As a first step, I would ask you to tell me whether the FOI Team intends to comply with my requests in principle and, if so, what steps it intends to take in order to search for and collate the information sought under the categories in my request. I’d be more than happy to try and agree a common approach, if that would help you. Perhaps you could also tell me when you expect to be able to start providing the documentation requested. I would be happy to receive it on a rolling basis (i.e. as and when you have completed each of the necessary searches), if that would assist.
Can I ask you to come back to me as soon as possible and by no later than 4 pm next Friday, 9 October 2020.
Thank you,
Best
Adam
