Gower tip waste disposal history
Mr Carroll made this Freedom of Information request to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Sandwell Borough Council,
I am requesting information concerning the former Albright and Wilson waste disposal site known as The Gower Tip, Tividale. As the former waste regulatory authority I trust that you may hold this information, rather than referring me to the Environment Agency. My Freedom of information request is as follows
1 Can you provide me with a map of the location of this site?
2. A copy of the full waste disposal license and the consents to dispose of waste on the site, and what this waste was and the allowed quantities.
3. The known periods when waste tipping occured at the site and when the site was considered "closed".
4. Confirmation that the site is designated as "contaminated land" and the reasons for this decision?
4. How the site was remediated, if at all?
Yours faithfully,
Mr Carroll
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Dear Sandwell Borough Council,
Teresa Armstrong,
I have not received a response to my Freedom of information Request concerning Gower Tip waste disposal history, when it was indicated that I would receive a response by 12th July. My original request asked
"I am requesting information concerning the former Albright and Wilson waste disposal site known as The Gower Tip, Tividale. As the former waste regulatory authority I trust that you may hold this
information, rather than referring me to the Environment Agency. My Freedom of information request is as follows
1 Can you provide me with a map of the location of this site?
2. A copy of the full waste disposal license and the consents to dispose of waste on the site, and what this waste was and the allowed quantities.
3. The known periods when waste tipping occured at the site and when the site was considered "closed".
4. Confirmation that the site is designated as "contaminated land" and the reasons for this decision?
4. How the site was remediated, if at all?
I hope that you can investigate why I have not received a respone as indicated and can I ask that the response is sent to me via this email address along with the information originally requested.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Carroll
Good Afternoon Mr Carroll
Please accept my apologies for the delay in providing you with this
information. Please find attached the response and information you
requested
Kindest Regards
Angela Goddard
Data Protection/Freedom of Information Assistant
Democratic Services
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Sandwell Council House
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Dear Angela Goddard,
Ref Gower Tip waste disposal history.
Thankyou for supplying me with the map of the site and information related to the above subject. Could I ask however, in your e mail reply you have refered to site license "SL54"
"I can confirm that the Council does not hold a copy of the waste disposal licence SL54. And I can confirm that the Council has not inspected the site under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, made a determination of contaminated land or served remediation notice."
Could I ask if you have not got a copy of the waste disposal license then how are you able to quote the waste disposal license number, which according to my information is not the site license number for this site in any case?
Given that there is no longer a waste disposal license in operation why have the council not made a determination under part 2(a) of the EPA 1990?
Yours sincerely,
Mr Carroll
Dear Mr Carroll,
Please find attached the Council's response to your recent request for a
review of the Council's handling of your Freedom of Information enquiry
and also a response to the additional information you requested within
your email dated 29th July 2010.
Yours sincerely,
Nigel Parr
Data Protection/Freedom of Information Officer
Democratic Services
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Sandwell Council House
0121 569 3248
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Mr Carroll left an annotation ()
I only feel sorry for the people who disposed of this waste for this company. I suppose they were told it contained "harmless calcium phosphate."