The processing of the Planning Application and associated documentation plans and representations for the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community project.
The Garden Community is delivered through partnership working between Tendring District Council, Colchester City Council and Essex County Council (the partner authorities) who are joint Data Controllers.
Article 6 Lawfulness of Processing (Section 1, (e))
Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Town & Country Planning Act 1990
Personal details as required. These may include:
• Name
• Address
• Email address
• Telephone of applicant or their representative
• Signatures
• Representations
Personal information is retained in accordance with each Authority’s published Corporate Retention Schedules and in line with the Town & Country Planning Act 1990.
Information is recorded and published on each Council’s public interfacing planning software, and held in perpetuity to provide a transparent record, and history, of a property and site.
The name and address of those making representation may be published to ensure transparency and openness.
The Garden Community is delivered through partnership working between Tendring District Council, Colchester City Council and Essex County Council (the partner authorities).
We may need to share personal information and representation(s) between the partner authorities in order to coordinate engagement, manage the programme and meet our statutory responsibilities.
We only share what is necessary, and we put arrangements in place to keep information secure.
Data may also be shared with the applicant, their nominated representative(s), appellants and relevant internal officers, elected Members and Council departments as well as statutory consultees, partners, stakeholders, consultants and the Planning Inspectorate.
Information provided via the online portals will be visible to the general public.
We will only share information where necessary for the planning process.
Further information regarding Colchester City Council’s processing can be found on the following links –
Colchester City Council’s Privacy Policy.
Individuals themselves (Data subjects) or nominated representative(s).
No automated decision making applies to this process.
No decisions are AI generated in accord with UK GDPR (Article 22), Equality Act 2010, Public Sector Equality Duty and Human Rights Act 1998.
Please Note:
An AI assisted analysis tool may be utilised to support summary assessment of representations however personal data will not be included.
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