L'Horizon Hotel data (FOI)

Request

Regarding the L'Horizon Hotel in St Brelade's Bay, over the past 15 years, kindly provide information on the following:

A

The quantity and details of planning compliance cases.

B

The number and nature of environmental health cases.

C

The quantity and nature of environmental health complaints.

D

The number of noise complaints.

E

Additionally, please indicate which of these cases or complaints are still ongoing.

Response

A

The Planning and Building section (‘Planning”) has received fewer than five compliance enquiries in relation to this site within the last 15 years.

In order to protect the identity of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to the Planning compliance cases since there are fewer than five. Therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied and no further information relating to these cases will be released.

B, C, and D

The following tables provide the requested information regarding complaints and compliance cases dealt with by the Housing and Nuisance team within the Environmental and Consumer Protection section (ECP), formerly Environmental Health.

It should be noted that the data provided are statistics in relation to complaint and compliance cases investigated and are not an indication of the final determination.

It should be noted that for the purpose of this response, a complaint has been defined as contact from someone in relation to matters at or relating to the referenced premises. 

Where multiple contact has been made by the same person and / or linked individuals, regarding the same matter, these have been counted as one complaint.

In order to protect the identity of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to the ECP compliance cases as fewer than five have been received in the categories provided. Therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied and no further information relating to these cases will be released.

It should be noted that the data has been provided from 2013 to-date when ECP introduced a new system to store compliance and complaint information. 

E

Information in relation to any potential live cases is exempt from release under Article 42a of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. Article 42 is a qualified exemption therefore a public interest test has been applied and is shown at the end of this response.

Articles applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

Article 42 - Law enforcement

Information is qualified exempt information if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice –

(a) the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, whether in Jersey or elsewhere; by any enactment.

Public Interest Test

Whilst disclosure of the information would support transparency, promote accountability to the general public and provide confirmation that necessary actions are taking place, it is considered that disclosure regarding any potential live compliance cases may prejudice any potential investigations and this potential prejudice outweighs the public interest in favour of disclosure at this time