A90/A96 Haudagain Improvement Scheme questions: EIR release

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.


Information requested

"(i) confirmation of who the principal contract of the site was; and

(ii) documentation showing that Environtec Ltd attended the property on 26 September 2017 (you have previously told us that Environtec Ltd attended on this date)"

Following issue of our acknowledgment email sent to you on 18 September, you clarified the first part of your request to

"(i) confirmation of who the principal contractor of the site was;"

Response

For the purpose of this response, the ‘premises’ refers to number 8 Logie Place, Aberdeen, AB16 7TP.

Response to your queries as follows:

(i) Environtec Ltd were the Principal Contractor for demolition and refurbishment surveys within the premises and BEAR Scotland were the Principal Contractor for the Property Management Services contract which includes the premises; and

(ii) Please see Annex A for email correspondence confirming that Environtec Ltd attended the property on 26 September 2017.

Personal information relating to individual staff members has been redacted within Annex A the reason for this is explained in the exception below.

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

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FOI-19-02115 - Information Released

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