FoI request: response received
On 22nd July 2009 we wrote to the City Council planning department with some Freedom of Information requests relating to planning issues at the site. We have now received a response.
Here is the City Council’s response to our FoI request, which also contains our questions interleaved.
Key extracts from it are:
[On the question of whether the previous occupant breached the planning condition that unloading must take place within the site:]
“There is no hard evidence of a continuous 10-year breach by the previous occupant.”
[On the question of the Council’s position on Tesco failing to obtain a Certificate of Lawfulness for the site:]
“There has been no decision by the City Council planning officers or others, “to reverse the Council’s position that a Certificate of Lawfulness application by Tesco in relation to 163-167 Mill Road, Cambridge, would enable the Council to “make a proper assessment of the proposed works and give an informed formal legal view as to whether or not these works require planning permission””.”
[On the question of Tesco installing air conditioning:]
“The Council has been advised at meetings that all the air conditioning plant is now to be inside the building. There has however, despite requests, been very little information forthcoming, between 1 December 2008 and 22 July 2009, about what plant is to be introduced inside the building.”
