personal details/legal to display

[b simpson]

we the neighbouring residents recently wrote letters of objection to our local council. now the buisness concerned are displaying all the names and addresses including signatures of the people who wrote the letters in a place were everyone who uses the buisness can see. our concerns are that people who see these letters with adresses etc.. on may retaliate by breaking windows etc.. my question is, is this legal for them to display these personal/details.

[Gwennie]

I'm not sure on this but wouldnt it be classed as a DPA breach??

[b simpson]

thats what i thought and also maybe breach of human rights? so is there anything that can be done?

[Gwennie]

Not a clue, try citizens advice? sorry i know thats not very helpful. you could also try looking here http://www.ico.gov.uk/

[Buenchico]

Councils must, by law, make planning and licensing applications available to the public. They must also make all objections to such applications available to the public. Anyone can (for the relevant fee) obtain photocopies of any such documents and do what they like with those photocopies, including putting them on public display.

I applaud the business for exercising their democratic right.

Chris

[flip_flop]

Hear hear Chris - if you are going to make objections, you have got to have the swingers to stand up and be counted.

[b simpson]

were not bothered about people knowing its was us were more concerned that it is being discriminitive to all 15+ of us that objected as the buisness is a social club and most of us are members!!

[b simpson]

were objecting 2 a beer garden which would be situated 7 feet away from my garden and all the other houses are not much further away we enjoy the club but we dont want 2 be subjected to noise,people urinating in our hedges,being kept awake untill the early hours as we have been doing since the smoking ban so comittee wont listen so objecting was the only answer would take it 2 the union but dont know if its discrimination or not?

[loonytunes]

As a matter of interest, if the piece of land (beer garden) was just being used for consumption of alcohol and not sales or entertainment, this did not need to be licensed and no application needed to be made. Hence, no objections would have been required to be made. You can therefore complain about the conduct of the licensing section under the Council's complaints procedure if you have been disadvantaged. Most Councils will remove personal details from letters of objection before they are sent out to licensees if they are requested to do so.