Contaminated Land Register
Dear Orkney Islands Council,
Please can you share with me an excel spreadsheet of data detailing all of the contaminated land in your local authority area. Please include both potentially and confirmed contaminated land, and identify each entry as such.
For each piece of contaminated land, please include:
The address
Co-ordinates
Date of identification
Date of remediation (if applicable)
Please also specify whether it has received special site status from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
Yours faithfully,
Jamie Mann
Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Dear Sir
Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 – Request for Information
Thank you for your information request dated [insert date] and received on [insert date]. Our reference is EIR 2019-[insert reference]. This is being dealt with in terms of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
The Regulations allow 20 working days to deal with your request from the date that we received it. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date where possible.
Kind regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone 01856 873535 Extension 2210
Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Dear Sir
Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 – Request for Information
I refer to your information request dated 24 October 2019, our reference is EIR 2019-1111.
I am pleased to enclose the information you requested and hope that it meets your requirements.
There are no entries on the Contaminated Land Register.
With regards to potentially contaminated Land we have information for the following:
Address Grid reference Date of determination Date of Remediation Special Site
Lyness, Hoy, Orkney 331278 E 994679 N Jul-10 N/A No
Under the EIRs, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review with 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to Head of Legal Services, Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email], Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:
That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.
We will issue a full response to your request for review with 20 working days of our receiving it.
Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.
Kind regards
George Vickers
Information Governance Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2162
www.orkney.gov.uk
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