Eastleigh Borough Council is failing to respond to Freedom of information requests within the legal timescale according to Matthew Myatt, Eastleigh Activist and Local Human Rights Campaigner.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, Public Bodies are obliged to respond within 20 days to requests for information.
He was surprised to receive the following response.
Since the introduction of the FOI act Mathew Myatt – best known locally for his leading role in the campaign to ‘Save Sid’ the tree the council felled to make way for the £2.4 million Point extension – has made a number of information requests to the council which revealed the losses incurred annually by the Point and the Eastleigh Music Festival.
More recent requests have shown that Eastleigh taxpayers made a £200,000 contribution to Hampshire County Council in connection with the Swan Centre extension and that the cost of producing the ’Borough News’ in partnership with the Daily Echo was costing £33,000 a year.
Is there any Information you feel the council may be holding that would be of to interest you?
Why not make a request and tell us how you got on!