4G infill programme rental costs associated with new mast sites: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for:

Information for the 35 sites listed on your website which have been acquired and are in build or built.

1. site address
2. agreed rent
3. lease term
4. rent review basis
5. any premium or incentive paid

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.

Attached is a copy of some of the information you requested in the format you asked for. This is in respect of item 1 and has been provided in the form of national grid references.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance, the Scottish Government does not hold information on items 2-5 that you have requested.

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FOI 202000111684 - Information released

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