High carbon infrastructure and fossil fuel extraction planning

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Climate Emergency UK

Dear Hounslow Borough Council,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.

I would like information about your council’s planning in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely to be held by a planning officer or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Has the Council approved any new *1 or expanded *2 roads or road junctions in its area from 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.

*1 The intention of this question is to understand overall increases in road capacity, rather than recent housing developments. Please exclude minor roads built exclusively to connect new housing to the pre-existing road network.

*2 An expanded road or road junction is one that has increased capacity for motor vehicle traffic, not counting bus lanes, cycle infrastructure, or pedestrian infrastructure. Please include roads and junctions where new lanes have been added.

b. Has the council approved any new or expanded airport runways, terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.

c. Has the Council approved any planning applications for fossil fuel extraction projects proposed in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted, including where relevant fossil fuel projects that were later ‘called in’ by central government.
By fossil fuel extraction projects we mean: any oil wells and fields (on or offshore), coal mines, fracking and shale gas, gas, natural (including liquified) gas (on or off shore) plants, and unabated fossil fuel generation and power plants well as related infrastructure such as pipelines and terminals for the fossil fuels.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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18-Jan-2023

Dear Hannah Jewell,

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Dear Hannah Jewell,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) request.

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Robert Coomber, Hounslow Borough Council

Dear Ms Jewell

 

Thank you for your request for information of 18 January 2023 as set out
at the foot of this email.

 

You have requested the following:

 

a. Has the Council approved any new or expanded roads or road junctions in
its area from 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which
ones were accepted.

 

b. Has the council approved any new or expanded airport runways,
terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning
proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st January 2019
until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.

 

c. Has the Council approved any planning applications for fossil fuel
extraction projects proposed in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st
January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted, including where
relevant fossil fuel projects that were later ‘called in’ by central
government.

 

Response:   

 

I am responding on behalf of the Council’s planning service and based on
our records.  You can expect also to receive a reply under separate cover
from my Transport Planning colleagues whose records may show other
information.

 

a)       No

b)      No

c)       No

 

Please be aware that our planning records are available to members of the
public via our Planning Search facility on the Council website where you
can find reports on all approvals and the associated approved plans.  As
such, had there been such approvals, under S21 of the Freedom of
Information Act, the Council would not have needed to provide you with
this publicly availabe information in any other form.

 

The response to your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Robert Coomber

Area Planning Manager

London Borough of Hounslow 

Development Management 

Hounslow House

7 Bath Road, Hounslow TW3 3EB

 

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Alejandra Andrade, Hounslow Borough Council

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Dear Hannah Jewell,

 

Please see the attached response to your FOI request dated 18^th Jan 2023.

 

Kind regards,

Alejandra

 

 

Alejandra Andrade | Environmental Strategy Officer

Environment and Climate

London Borough of Hounslow

Hounslow House

7 Bath Road

TW3 3EB

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