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Historic Environment Record (HER) information may be withheld in some circumstances. How we treat the information you give us.
We may refuse an enquiry when:
To put this in perspective, we can't remember the last time this arose! In practice, we hardly ever refuse enquiries. It is usually possible to deal with our concerns by providing more information or submitting a more focused enquiry.
Access to information held in the HER is available under the provision of Section 141 (1) of the 1972 Local Government Act and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Dorset Council supports the objectives of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Some information may be withheld because of its nature and the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998. In particular, we cannot provide information about the owners or occupiers of particular monuments or areas. On occasion, in very special circumstances, we may approach landowners on an enquirer's behalf. You should not expect us to do this as a matter of course.
Access to all or part of the information requested may be refused in certain circumstances. Information may not be disclosed if:
Dorset Council is committed to compliance with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998. In particular, personal information you give us will be held securely and used only for the purpose for which it is collected. In the case of Historic Environment Record enquiries, we'll process your enquiry and keep the information on file for a while in case you get back to us with a query or supplementary enquiry. Some of the information will be used to assemble very basic statistics about HER use and users for each year. Shortly after the end of each year we 'weed out' our enquiries file and dispose of personal details. The precise timing of this depends on our workload but we aim to do it within three months.