abc Community Services Policy and Performance Group Room 138 Civic Centre 1 Little Park Street Coventry CV1 5RS Telephone 024 7683 1652 Fax 024 7683 3494 www.coventry.gov.uk Please contact Simon Brake Direct line 024 7683 1652 Our reference FOI 20070859 Fax 024 7683 3494 02 October 2012 [email protected] Dear Ms Freedom of Information Act 2000 Thank you for requesting information about pet shop licences, which the Council received on 4th September 2012. Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You have requested the following information; 1. Please provide details of each licence; including name and address of the premises that is licensed (please include any licences currently in application) 2. For each premise with a Pet Shop licence, include a copy of any conditions attached to the licence. In response to questions 1 and 2 Please find attached the following documents: • Bannerbrook Pets – Pet Shop licence 2012 • City Aqua Rep Ltd – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Godiva Pet and Reptile Centre – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Hobdays Pet Shop – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Just for Pets Ltd – Pet Shop licence 2012 • KBN Reptile Ltd – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Midlands Aquatics and Reptile Centre – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Pets and Paws Ltd – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Pets at Home Ltd (Canley Store) – Pet Shop licence 2012 • Pets at Home Ltd (Gallagher Retail Park) Pet Shop licence 2012 • Russells Pet Stores Pet Shop licence 2012 You will notice that certain information within the supplied documents has been redacted (removed, blocked-out). Director of Community Services Brian Walsh Head of Service Simon Brake Assistant Director Policy and Performance 02 October 2012 The Council is withholding part of the requested information as it falls under the exemption(s) in Section 40 (2) and the first condition of subsection (3) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("The Act"), which relates to personal information. The Council considers that in respect of information relating to identities and contact details of third parties and junior Council officers involved in this process, that this meets the definition for personal data set out in Section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") as: "data which relate to a living individual who can be identified - (a) from those data, or (b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual." The Council thus considers that the requested information is caught by the exemption to disclosure contained in Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the related first condition of Section 40 (3). To explain further, a disclosure made under the Freedom of Information Act is judged to be a disclosure to the wider world and here the Council must consider disclosure of personal information in line with the provisions of the Data Protection Act. In this instance it is judged that the personal information relating to third parties involved and also junior Council staff is being processed by the Council for the purposes of Pet Shop licensing and not for any wider disclosure purposes. Individuals involved, with the exception of any named senior officers contained in the Council's standard letter template, would also have no reasonable expectation that their details would be disclosed to the world-at-large. Any disclosure of this information would be judged in this instance to breach the principles of the Data Protection Act, notably the first principle - that of fair and lawful processing and the second principle - that of processing for specified and not-incompatible purposes. This is why certain names and signatures have been removed in this instance. Please note that most of the information that you request is owned by the Coventry City Council and subject to copyright protection. Under the Re-Use of Public Sector Information 2005 Regulations you are free to use this information for your own use or for the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use under the Regulations, for example; publication of the information or circulation to the public, will require permission of the copyright owner and may be subject to terms and conditions. For documents where the copyright does not belong to Coventry City Council you will need to apply separately to the copyright holder. If you wish to apply to reuse the information you have requested or have any other issues relating to this request please do not hesitate to contact me. I hope you feel that our response meets your request. However you have a right to make representations about the outcome or handling of your request – in the first instance this must be made in writing within 40 working days of the date of this letter, to the Council's Information Governance Team at: Council House, Room 21a Lower Ground Floor Earl Street, Coventry. CV1 5RR [email protected] 2 02 October 2012 If you have done the above but are still dissatisfied, you then have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF Yours sincerely Simon Brake Assistant Director Policy and Performance 3 LICENCE TO KEEP A PET SHOP The Pet Animals Act 1951 The Coventry City Council pursuant to the Pet Animal Act 1951 (hereinafter called "the said Act" HEREBY GRANT A LICENCE TO of Bannerbrook Pets To keep a Pet Shop within the meaning of the said Act at 15 Gramercy Park, Coventry, CV4 9AE subject to compliance with the conditions set out overleaf. This licence shall come into force from the first day of January 2012 and shall, subject to the provisions of the said Act, continue in force until and including the Thirty-first day of December 2012. Granted at the office of said Council at Community Services Directorate, Public Safety & Housing, Broadgate House, Broadgate, Coventry, CV1 1NH. On the 1st day of January 2012 On behalf the Coventry City Council Animal Welfare & Pest Control Officer Public Safety & Housing CONDITIONS 1. No animal shall be displayed in a ca ge, hutch, box or other receptacle in such a position as to expose it to interference or annoyance by persons or animals. 2. Animals shall at all tim es be kept in accommo dation suita ble as resp ects size, temperature, lighting, ventilation and cleanliness. 3. Animals shall be adequately supplied with suitable food and drink and (so far as necessary) visited at suitable intervals. 4. Animals and stock sha ll not be placed or kept in or outside the shop so as to render ingress or egress difficult in case of fire or other emergency. 5. The Licensee(s) shall ensure that a responsible person shall at all times be in or within a reasonable distance from the premises for the purp ose of giving warning and taking other necessary steps in the event of fire or other emergency. In the case of premi ses which are locked- up outside business hours, the Licensee(s) shall appo int a responsible person residing within a reasonable distance to t he premises to have custody of the key. The name and ad dress of such person shall be displayed in legible characters on the front door or windows of the premises and be notified to the local Fire Brigade. A supply of water and sand and/or efficient fire extinguisher must always be available on the premises. 6. No animal which is suf fering from or could re asonably be suspe cted of having come into contact with another animal sufferin g from an infectious disease shall be brought up or kept on the pre mises unless it is prop erly isolated from other animals therein. 7. Animals shall not be handed to customers in unsuitable containers. 8. No animal shall be sold unweaned, or if weaned, at any age at which it should not have been weaned. 9. Where animals are kept in cages, h utches, boxes or other receptacle s placed o n top of other cages, hutches, boxes or other receptacles, effective means shall be provided for preventing water, food or other drop pings fallin g onto or contaminating the animals or other surroundings which are underneath. 10. Within twelve hours of the sale of any dangerous wild an imal specified in th e Schedule to the Dangerous Wild An imals Act 1976 (as modified from time to time by the Secretary of State), the Licensee(s) shall notify the Director of Housing and Environmental Services of the City Council of the Dangerous wild animal sold and the name address of the purchaser. NOTES 1. This Licence is given under the Pet Animals Act 1951 and is subject to due compliance with the byelaws, Local Acts, an d Regulatio ns and wit h all other relevant statutory provisions in force in the City and nothing herein contained is to be regarded as dispe nsing with such compliance beyond the extent herein specified. This Licen ce does not modify or affect any personal or restrictive covenant applying to the premises or any person entitled to the benefit thereof. 2. Any person aggrieved by any of the above conditions may appeal to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction in Coventry. 3. If it is desired to renew t his License an application to su ch effect should be made well before the date of expiry.