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Download 20123607 Place Directorate UNCLASSIFIED Martin Yardley Executive Director Business Support Floor 12, Civic Centre 4 Much Park Street Coventry CV1 2PY www.coventry.gov.uk Our reference FOI 20123607 Please contact Bernie Robinson [email protected] 2 February 2015 Dear Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Thank you for requesting information about the Councils assets. The Council received your request on 7 January 2015 and has considered it under the above legislation. You have requested the following information: 1. A copy of the Local Authority’s asset registers for buildings and land. 2. What is the total number of art owned by the Local Authority and the estimated total value and the number of works currently on display. Question 1 Response The information you requested is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in Section 22 of the FOIA which relates to information intended for future publication. The Council intends to publish this information by 5th February 2015 and it is deemed on this occasion that the public interest in disclosure is outweighed by the public interest in withholding the requested information until that time. The requested information can be viewed after the 5th February by going to: www.coventry.gov.uk Question 2 Response Please find attached documents detailing the Art work owned by the Council. The information you have requested in connection with the total number and value of works 2 February 2015 of arts and the number of works currently on display has been withheld from disclosure. The exemption engaged is Section 12 of the FOIA. Section 12 of the Act exempts Public Authorities from providing information where the estimated cost of compliance with the request exceeds the appropriate limit. Any estimate must be made in accordance with the limits set in fees regulations made under Section 12 (5) of the Act. These Fees Regulations allow for a refusal where the cost of compliance, for local authorities such as the Council, would exceed £450. As a guide, staff time to identify and extract this information is charged at a rate of £25 per hour. You will see by the volume of artwork listed in the attached documents that we are unable to breakdown the lists into the value of what is on display. There would also be additional pieces of artwork not included within the attached valuations, generally because there will be a value threshold agreed with the company completing the valuation. Since a substantial amount of work will be involved in processing your request as it is currently phrased, I am afraid a fee is payable before we can provide you with the information. The fee in this case is £1000 - please see the schedule below explaining how this was calculated. If the actual cost turns out to be less than the estimate, the balance will be returned to you. CHARGE MADE DISBURSEMENTS COST OF COMPLYING WITH THE To be charged at a rate of £25 per hour of REQUEST officer time estimated at a minimum of 20 hours to be spent identifying, retrieving and extracting requested information PHOTOCOPYING POSTAGE AND OTHER FORMS OF TRANSMISSION VAT (IF APPLICABLE) TOTAL £1000 Payment can be made using the online payment facility on the Council web site. To do this, go to ‘Pay Online’ and select - Freedom of Information request. Please insert your request reference number (20123607) in the 'Account' box. While the legislation allows the Council 20 working days to respond to your request from the date of its receipt, this time limit is suspended until we receive payment. As soon as we receive your payment we will begin work on your request (please be aware that payments take at least three working days from receipt to clear). 2 2 February 2015 Alternatively, if you do not want to pay online, please make your cheque payable to Coventry City Council and send to the address given below. If we do not receive your payment by 1 May 2015, we will consider your request closed and no further action will be taken by the Council. If you have any other issues relating to this request please do not hesitate to contact me. If you can narrow down or perhaps re-focus your request, the Council will re-consider it. To help you do this you may wish to: Look at the latest Freedom of Information responses issued by the Council on our disclosure log or browse through the Council's Publication Scheme and see if this would help you to identify more precise questions; Have a look at Facts about Coventry Look at the reusable Open Data already published by the Council If you are unhappy with the outcome or handling of your request you should write to us within 40 working days of the date of this letter: Information Governance Council House, Room 21a Lower Ground Floor Earl Street, Coventry. CV1 5RR [email protected] If having done that you are still dissatisfied, the Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF 3 2 February 2015 Yours sincerely Bernie Robinson Business Support Officer Enclosures: Bonhams Total Aggregated Values 2007 Bonhams Visual Arts Valuation Jan 2008 Inventory Refrerence Furniture Pictures Sculpture Metalworks Textiles Arms and Armour Ceramics Glassware Miscellaneous Textile Formal Report 1 Valuation Formal Report 1 Valuation Formal Report 3 4 The Herbert Museum Collections: Bonhams Valuation 2007 Collection Aggregate Values Visual Arts £17,688,290 Natural History £262,200 Archaeology £667,300 Social History £2,145,180 (Costumes, ribbons, silks £439, 060) Total £20,762,970 Valuation Sale Item Description 20th Century British School HMS Broadsword Rescuing Survivors from HMS Coventry on 2000 May 25 1982 2000 A blue and yellow saucer dish 3000 A collection of six Icons 2000 A jar of Guan type, Probably Wanli 10000 Abbott, John White (1763-1851) Warwick Castle from the Avon Adshead, Mary (1904-1995) British Restaurant, Coventry-Grace at the Sausage Hatch 35.3 x 3800 25 cm 35000 Allingham, Helen (1848-1926) The Cottage 12000 Anderson,John (1835-1919) A group of six landscapes and seascapes Atkinson, Terry (born in 1939) PRODUCT. 15-inch Howitzer, made by Coventry Ordnance 10000 Company in Glasgow 5000 Attributed to Bonnet, Rudolf (1895-1978) Ploughing with water buffalo in Bali 8000 Ayrton, Michael (1921-1975) Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) 11000 Baker, Thomas, 'of Leamington' (1809-1864) Rowsley Mill, Derbyshire 26 x 36.5cm 28000 Baker, Thomas, 'of Leamington' (1809-1864) Warwick Castle from the River 30 x 48cm 12500 Baker,Thomas, 'of Leamington' A group of nine views of Warwickshire 2500 Barker, Thomas, of Bath (1767-1847) Kenilworth Castle 30000 Bates, David (1840-1921) Hearts of Oak 114 x 153cm 6500 Baynton, Henry (Harry) (1862-1926) An Argument (also called 'Friends') 74 x 62cm 3000 Baynton, Henry (Harry) (1862-1926) Summer (in Ancient Rome) 46 x 30cm 14000 Bellany, John (born 1942) Untitled (seated figure) 122 x 92cm 20000 Bellany, John (born 1942) Untitled (woman with fish) 153 x 122cm Bengali school Bengali Storytellers' Scroll: The Childhood of Krishna (verso: sketches of 8000 drapery, head, legs,etc<DUPE?> 415 x 54.8cm 7800 Bentham,Philip(1910-85) 45000 Bevan, Robert Polehill (1865-1925) Brimley Hill, Devon 50.7 x 60.4cm 18000 Blackshaw, Basil (born in 1932) Cottage near Lisburn, County Down 44 x 60cm 3500 Boden, Leonard (1911-99) Portrait of Alfred Herbert 103 x 85 cm 4000 Boden,Neville (1929-96) 30000 Bomberg, David (1890-1957) Drawing ('Man and Woman') 26x 20cm 30000 Bomberg, David (1890-1957) Evening, Cornwall (also called 'Towards St. Ives) 68 x 105cm 3000 Bomberg, David (1890-1957) Head of a Woman, with study for composition 3000 Bomberg, David (1890-1957) Woman's Head 38 x 28 cm 3000 Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Bomberg (crouching) 36 x 27cm Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Jewellery-making (study for 'Cameo Corner', 1919) 28.6 x 3000 20.2cm 3000 Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Leaning Down 36.2 x 26.6cm Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Making Jewellery (study for 'Cameo Corner', 1919) 26.5 x 3000 20cm 2500 Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Seated 26.9 x 24.6 cm Bomberg, David (1890-1959) Alice Stringing Beads I (study for 'Cameo Corner', 1919) 26.2 x 3000 19.5cm 18000 Bomberg, David(1890-1957) Imaginative Composition-Fishing Folk 35 x 50 cm 8000 Bone, Sir Muirhead (1876-1953) Ruins of Coventry Cathedral 130 x 77cm 8000 Boulton, Mr, of Worcester 2000 Bowden, John (born in 1941) Overlay 183.5 x 182.5 cm 17000 Bowling, Frank (born in 1936) Traingone (Mahaicony Abary) 98 x 211cm 10000 Bratby, John (1928-1992) Anne 106.5 x 71.5cm 12000 Bratby, John (1928-1992) Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day 112 x 86.5cm British school (possibly by Alfred Pollentine, working 1861-80) Grand Canal, Venice 81.7 x 4000 123cm 2000 Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie (1890-1978) Figure Composition 2500 Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie (1890-1978) Genevieve (seated woman) 8000 Brosnan, Shaun Anthony Francis (born in 1961) 3000 Brown, Edwin (working 1840-1884) Chestnut Hunter in landscape 50.5 x 66cm 4500 Brown, Edwin (working 1840-1884) The Binley Oak 100 x 124.5cm 35000 Bunney,Sydney John(1877-1928) A large collection of views of Coventry 30000 Burra, Edward J. (1905-1976) Sailors in a Street Market, Marseilles 51.3 x 40.8cm 60000 Callcott, Augustus Wall, Sir (1779-1844) Cow Boys 127 x 107.5cm 10000 Callow,William (1812-1908) Four Warwickshire views 2000 Carr, Thomas (1909-99) Shangho Tavern 51 x 40.6 cm 2000 Carter, Henry (working 1864-74) Interior of St.
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