Success rate of windfarm development applications: EIR release
- Published
- 9 November 2020
- Directorate
- Energy and Climate Change Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202000095942
- Date received
- 7 October 2020
- Date responded
- 22 October 2020
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
1. The percentage of applications for windfarm developments which have been approved by Scottish Ministers for the past five year?
2. For the approved windfarm developments in the last five years, how many sent to Public Inquiry?
3. Scottish Ministers approving percentage after Public Inquiry?
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public
interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
1. 69%
2. 38%
3. 50%
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
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