Communications regarding permit application EPR/SP3609BX/A001 between the EA
Dear Environment Agency
I make the following request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
Please provide all information held on communications regarding permit application EPR/SP3609BX/A001 between the EA and the following:
1. Carlisle City Council
2. Cumbria County Council
3. United Utilities
4. Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Please include communications that are known by the EA to have been initiated because of matters arising from the consideration of the EPR/SP3609BX/A001 permit application (or comments on the permit application) even if the communications do not specifically refer to permit application EPR/SP3609BX/A001.
Records held of relevant communications made by any and all means should be included. Please include recordings of meetings/telephone conversations if held.
Where information is held but not disclosed, please provide as much information as possible and state, for each item of information that has not been disclosed, the reason(s) for withholding the information.
Where no relevant communication has taken place with a particular organisation/group/committee, please state that no information is held.
Please supply the information by email.
Thank you for your help and your time.
Yours faithfully,
K. Lock
Dear Environment Agency,
This information request is long overdue. Please respond without further delay. If the EA needs more time, please let me know when I expect the information and explain why it is taking longer than the 20 working day limit.
Yours faithfully,
K. Lock
Good Morning Katie
Thank you for contacting the Environment Agency regarding Kingmoor permit
application EPR/SP3609BX/A001 and associated communications between the
Environment Agency and various bodies. We apologise for the delay in
responding to your enquiry.
We respond under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental
Information Regulations 2004. Please refer to the Open Government Licence
which explains the permitted use of this information. Our apologies for
the delay in responding to you.
Please see our response attached. We have redacted some of the attached
information because it contains personal data.
The Environment Agency is not able to disclose the name of the sender,
recipient or those CC’d into the email as this is personal data under the
Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and to disclose it would breach the
First Data Protection Principle of the DPA 2018.
The information requested is therefore exempt due to Regulation 13(1) of
the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, which explains that:
“To the extent that the information requested includes personal data of
which the applicant is not the data subject, a public authority must not
disclose the personal data if—
(a) the first condition is satisfied…”
The ‘first condition’ referred to above is further explained in Regulation
13(2A):
“The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member
of the public otherwise than under these Regulations—
(a) would contravene any of the data protection principles…”
The type of information we are refusing is personal information which can
only be disclosed to the individual concerned. This exemption applies
because the right given under the Regulations to request official
information held by public authorities does not apply to the personal data
of third parties where disclosure of that information would not be fair to
the individual, and where there is no legitimate public interest in
disclosure.
You are welcome to get in touch if you have any further queries or you can
contact us within 2 months if you would like us to review the information
we have sent to you.
Kind regards,
Mark
Customers and Engagement Team
Cumbria and Lancashire
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Dear Mark,
Thank you for your email, but I have not received the information I requested. My request concerned communications with the following:
1. Carlisle City Council
2. Cumbria County Council
3. United Utilities
4. Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
I seem to have received EA communications with other organisations but not those I requested. I made my request more than three months ago so please send me the information I requested as soon as possible.
Thanks,
K.Lock
Hi Katie
My understanding is that we ask other organisations, including the ones you referenced, for information in connection with the permit application. We send out the consultation but we don't always receive a response. The responses that we did receive were provided to you.
Please let me know if I can assist further.
Kind regards
Mark
Customers and Engagement Team
Cumbria and Lancashire
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