1. We request all correspondence including letters, emails, and meeting notes – internal and external – from the Council’s Landscape & Trees team, specifically from Chris Hannington, Landscape Officer in respect of reference to Hurst, Haines Hill Valued Landscape, and Haines Hill Estate.

The Council are applying Section 12 exemption, exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours work. The Officer in question has worked for the Council for over ten years so to collate anything relating to 'Hurst', 'Haines Hill Valued Landscape', and 'Haines Hill Estate' would exceed this timescale. We do not have an estimate to the exact amount of time it would take to collate this material. The Officer has worked on TPOs, Planning Applications, Planning Appeals, the Local Plan Update, Enforcement work, and a number of other aspects. A lot of this information would be in the public realm already so Section 21 exemption could be applicable - the Council publish Planning Applications on online for example.

The Officer has reviewed some of what is held (searched the following terms: Haines Hill Valued Landscape (and Haines Hill VL) and attached what is believed to be the most relevant information relating to this request (all information returned in the search result has been included). A number of the communications will already be in the possession of the applicant from the communications to them in the past. Planning Application (240583 Land north west of Hogmoor Lane Hurst ) and its impact on the Haynes Hill Valued Landscape may hold some information as well which is publicly accessible.