Communications concerning the development of a residential children’s home
Date of request: 31 March 2026
Reference: 15250408/26
Request
Can you please respond to Q2 specifically if you are unable to identify information relating to children’s homes:
Secondly, I also request all information – reports, consultations, communications – email and records of calls or meetings concerning the development of a residential children’s home at 16 Well Close, Winscombe, BS25. Has a community impact assessment submission been made or requested? If so please provide copy of this document.
I have been advised by [Redacted] that a CIA had been contributed to – this has not been provided, nor is it in the attachment/links. Please can this document and the associated emails/documents etc be provided as per my initial request.
Response
Avon and Somerset police have not identified a CIA (Community Impact Assessment) document, or a contribution towards such a named document. We have identified a request from the Local Authority in relation to a Location Assessment Consultation.
We have not identified any further information in relation to the development of a residential children’s home at 16 Well Close, namely no records of calls or meetings, and no further reports, consultations or communications in relation to the development of the children’s home, other than what is contained in response to this request.
We have identified two email chains in relation to this request which are attached.
- Email chain 1 of 2 is in relation to ascertaining if a CIA has been contributed to and by whom.
- Email chain 2 of 2 is in relation to a request from the Local Authority regarding a Location Assessment Consultation.
With each email chain, the earliest date is at the bottom of the document.
Information is held by multiple people copied into each email chain, but only 1 full and complete copy has been provided for ease of reference as the information is duplicated or repeated between all the individuals copied in.
Within these documents redactions have been made under the following exemptions:
Section 40(2) Personal Information
Section 40 is a class based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case. Names, email addresses and direct dial phone numbers, as well as personally identifiable information have been redacted, as to disclose this information would identify individuals which would breach principle 1 (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Within email chain 2 of 2, the LA provided a document entitled ‘Location Assessment for Well Close’. This document has been published here under the heading ‘Location Assessment Well Close Pre Consultation’. As this is publicly available, this information therefore falls under the Section 21 exemption relating to information reasonably accessible by other means.
This is an absolute and class-based exemption and as such does not require a harm and public interest test.
This serves as a partial refusal notice under section 17(1) of the FOI Act.