Correspondence relating to the Overdale site for the new hospital (FOI)

Request

I would like to see copies of all correspondence and reports from the Department of the Environment from 2015 to the present day addressed to other Government departments concerning the Department of the Environment's assessment of the suitability in planning terms of the Overdale site for the construction of a single site new hospital building.

Response

We have checked our Development Control records and attach a copy of the documentation requested.

 Email (pdf)

 Letter (pdf)

Personal information has been redacted in accordance with the Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Further information regarding the current planning application for the new hospital can be found below.

Planning Application Detail (gov.je)

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Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1)        Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2)        Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3)     In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018[9] would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.[10]