TfL Ref: FOI-0924-1718
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18 July 2017 asking for information about Earl’s Court.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.
The information you have requested is available on our website. The documents signed in March 2014 included draft documents which were to be completed once certain conditions had been satisfied. The conditions were satisfied by April 2015 and therefore the draft documents were signed and completed in April 2015.
You can view the requested documents at the links listed below:
LUL Void Lease relating to a void to be fitted out as train stabling;
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/development-agreement-for-lease-train-stabling-facility-at-earls-court-village.pdf
Landowners Agreement;
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/landowners-agreement-agreed-form.pdf
Lillie Bridge Depot Rights Agreement;
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/lbd-rights-agreement.pdf
Development Agreement
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/earls-court-village-development#on-this-page-0
However, to provide the information you have requested regarding “documents relating to the creation of these agreements and records of the decision to make them” would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.
To obtain this information we would need to run manual searches on our archived emails. This search would need to carry broad search terms, such as “agreement”, to ensure that all correspondence was caught by the request. However, this would clearly also include a significant volume of information that isn’t related to these agreements but we would need to manually inspect each email and corresponding chain in order to extract and collate those that are relevant. Such a process would significantly exceed the cost limit.
To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. For example, you may wish to limit your request to a particular document, as opposed to general correspondence data.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Lee Hill
Senior FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
