Purposes of processing
Personal data is collected and processed to enable Birmingham City Council to make decisions about the use of land in the public interest. This data will also be used for the purposes of issuing satisfaction surveys in order to determine the level of service being provided and how we may improve the business for future users.
Personal data is processed under both Part 2 (‘General processing’) and Part 3 (‘Law enforcement processing’) of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the ‘DPA 2018’, the ‘Act’). Where it is collected for planning law enforcement purposes then we are acting as a competent authority* and Part 3 applies.
*A competent authority means:
- a person specified in Schedule 7 of the DPA 2018; or
- any other person if, and to the extent that, they have statutory functions to exercise public authority or public powers for the law enforcement purposes.
By virtue of point 2, the council and its contractors are acting as a competent authority in processing the data for planning law enforcement purposes.
