Blanket ban or development at Le Marais

Request 844083421

All correspondence both written and electronic between the Development Control and Technical Records Department, Drainage DFI, Planning Department and Planning Officers specifically in regard to the blanket ban on any development and capacity issues in the catchment area of Le Marais a la Cocque both East and West. 

Clarification request 

Please clarify what is meant by blanket ban.

Customer clarification

Please can you provide correspondence both written and electronic between the Development Control and Technical Records Department, Drainage DFI, Planning Department and Planning Officers specifically in regard to the planning application P/2025/0783, development blanket ban and capacity issues in the catchment area of Le Marais a la Cocque both East and West

Response

Under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (“the Law”), a Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) may refuse to supply information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed the amount prescribed by the relevant Regulations.

To provide all correspondence both written and electronic between the Development Control and Technical Records Department, Drainage DFI, Planning Department and Planning Officers specifically in regard to the blanket ban on any development and capacity issues in the catchment area of Le Marais a la Cocque, both East and West, it is considered that the time taken to:

(a) determine whether the scheduled public authority holds the information;

(b) locate the information, or a document which may contain the information;

(c) retrieve the information, or a document which may contain the information; and

(d) extract the information requested,

would exceed the amount / time limit provided for such matters under the Regulations. Accordingly, Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, Article 16 has been applied.

Articles applied

16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.[2]

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign,

the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.​