FOI request (FOIR-242344712)

Badger Setts in Hastings

Requested Wed 26 August 2020
Responded  Wed 09 September 2020

I would be grateful if you could provide me a full selection of Maps from PJC Consulting or other Ecology Companies providing Hastings Borough Council with Maps of Badger Setts in Hastings which was used as a planning matter.

You should be aware that under the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act and its subsequent Acts of Law you are required to keep information of a planning matter so that this matter can be adjudicated on a different day with the same information being available. Clearly there may a cost for this information request, and I would be grateful for you to write advising me of the costs to provide documents on paper copy. I may remind you that this information is not on your Council Web Site and must be recorded elsewhere.

I look forward to you providing the above information within thirty Days. When can I expect the information (thirty days is around the 19th of September 2020)? If you state, you do not have this information then you should not continue to build houses.

Response

All maps available in planning will be available to view on line using the public access tool. Precise locations of badger setts are not however included in any mapping in order to protect the badgers from possible badger baiting. Therefore all data we have that can be obtained for this request is available on line.

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/