Please provide a list of meetings, phone calls and texts/whatsapp messages (with dates, attendees etc) with Slaters relating to Mays Field, Topsham in the last three years. At the very minimum it should include all contact with the Highways Development Officer and their manager.
Please see below for the list of meetings
- 20th December 2023 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer
- 2nd July 2024 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer, Developer and representatives from SLR Consulting.
- 29th July 2024 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer
- 5th September 2024 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer, representatives from SLR Consulting and Devon County Council’s (DCC’s) Road Safety Officer
- 19th December 2025 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer, Developer a representative from SLR Consulting
- 13th January 2026 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer, Developer a representative from SLR Consulting
- 15th January 2026 – Principal Highways Development Officer and DCC’s Road Safety Officer
- 21st January 2026 – Principal Highways Development Officer and Developer
Devon County Council does not hold information relating to a listing of phone calls and text/Whatsapp messages.
Please include all minutes and correspondence.
Devon County Council does not hold Minutes relating to this project.
With regard to correspondences, this information relates to the pre-application stage and the related discussions and advice. Devon County Council can confirm that this information is held, however, the information is being withheld from disclosure under (Regulation 12(5)(d)) (Confidentiality of Proceedings).
Pre‑application planning advice forms part of a structured and established process intended to assist early engagement, identify potential planning issues and promote better‑quality planning applications. The authority considers that disclosure of pre‑application advice would be likely to adversely affect the confidentiality of those proceedings by undermining their integrity and effectiveness. This could discourage open and frank engagement between applicants and the authority, to the detriment of the planning process as a whole.
It is DCC’s view that disclosure would have an adverse effect on the confidentiality of the pre-application process, as it would damage the general principle of confidentiality.
Devon County Council has considered the public interest in releasing this information and recognises that there is a public interest in openness and transparency. However, the balance of public interest weighs in favour of withholding this information from disclosure to protect the confidentiality of the pre-application process and because opportunities for public debate will be available after the planning application is submitted and in advance of decisions being made.