Details of any meetings regarding the proposed Forest City Project
Received 10 April 2026
Further to an FOI/EIR request made at the end of last year (Your Ref: 25/26-438), I request further information held by East Cambridgeshire District Council relating to the proposed Forest City scheme.
In particular, I would like any communications between the scheme's proposers (Shiv Malik, Joe Reeve et al) or their representatives and ECDC. I am also requesting details of any meetings (in person, virtual or telephone) that have taken place between the scheme's proposers or their representatives and ECDC. This should include dates, times, participants and the minutes/readout of the meeting.
For the above, ‘communications’ includes, but is not limited to, emails, messages, letters, memoranda, briefing notes, and internal communications.
Please limit your response to dates between 1st December 2025 and the date of this email.
Responded 8 May 2026
I have checked with East Cambridgeshire District Council officers, planning department, corporate management team and Councillors, and confirm that we have not had any meetings or hold any information on Forest City.
The Council considers that the requested information falls within the Environmental Information Regulations (“EIR”), which relate to information on activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors of the environment.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a)Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act;
b)Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 12(4)(a) – Information Not Held
c)State why the exemption applies:
Regulation 12 (4) a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that(a)it does not hold that information when an applicant’s request is received.