Environmental Impact Assessments.

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Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please provide me with details of all Environmental Impacts that have been produced as a result of planning applications processed by the Planning Department of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.

Yours faithfully,

Alan Rundle

InfoMgr, FinDMT, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Good Afternoon

 

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004 as the records sought meets the
classification of ‘environmental information’ under Reg. 2(c) of the
legislation as they constitute plans ‘affecting or likely to affect the
elements and factors referred to in Reg. 2(a) and (b)’.

 

In accordance with Reg. 12(4)(c) of the legislation, the Council is
currently unable to provide you with a response to your enquiry as it is
formulated in too general a manner, meaning that the Council is unsure of
precisely what information you are asking for.

 

Would you like to receive details of any Screening and/or Scoping Requests
in relation to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and any responses
made by the Council in that regard? 

 

Alternatively, are you asking for details of applications that (1)
required EIA and if so, do you (2) want the details of those EIAs?

 

The Council would also require a specific timeframe to be stated so that a
decision can be made as to whether this amount of information can be
provided within the constraints of the legislation (while there is no cost
limit under EIR, an authority is not obligated to disclose requested
records when doing so would be ‘manifestly unreasonable’ under Reg.
12(4)(b)).

 

In accordance with Regulation 9 of the legislation, and to provide you
with relevant advice and assistance, all environmental Screening and
Scoping requests are publicly available as part of the Planning Register
which can be viewed on the Planning pages of the Council website [1]here.

 

Any planning applications that required Environmental Impact Assessment
will also have a copy of the Assessment/Statement on the file, which
again, is a public file viewable at the above link. Some of these
documents are so large they may not be on the web, but hard copies would
be held on the files which can be inspected at the Council’s offices by
contacting the planning department.

 

If you were to provide a list of the specific applications you are
interested in, the Council would be happy to make the files available to
you. 

 

You have the right under Regulation 11 of the EIR to request an internal
review of the refusal to supply this information. This should be addressed
to:

Information Manager

Legal and Member Services

Town Hall

Brighton Street

Wallasey

CH44 8ED

[2][Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

If you are dissatisfied with the result of your internal review, you also
have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address
is

The Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire SK9 5AF

[3]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Kind regards,

 

Sent on behalf of

 

Tracy O'Hare

Information Management

Transformation and Resources

Wirral Council

 

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