A SENIOR director has apologised after City of York Council gave a highly inaccurate response to a Freedom of Information request about unspent ‘Section 106’ planning payments.
Ian Floyd, director of customers and business support services, admitted the authority was more than £700,000 out when it stated how much of the money, paid to the council by developers to help fund infrastructure projects, had never been spent.
Mr Floyd was responding to a complaint by chartered surveyor and council arch critic Paul Cordock, who spotted discrepancies between the answers to an FoI request made last November and another one made in December.