Planning permission River and East of Woodilee Road Lenzie: EIR release

Information requested

All Information in respect of the response provided, on Subject: TP/ED/20/0904 Application for Planning Permission (including changes of use and surface mineral working) Site South Of River and East Of Woodilee Road Lenzie East Dunbartonshire.

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 requested.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide all of the information you have requested because an exception(s) under regulation(s) Regulation 11(2) (Personal data relating to third party) of the EIRs applies to that information. 

There is also an exception under Regulation 6 (1)(b) (Form and format of information) some of the information is already publicly available and easily accessible from a previous Freedom of Information request: Planning permission River & East of Woodilee Road Lenzie: EIR release -gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

The reasons why these exceptions apply are explained in Annex A to this letter.

Annex A
REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION

Personal data relating to third party
An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs applies to some of the information you have requested. Reg 11(2) (Personal data relating to third party).

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some the information requested because it is personal data of a third party (names and contact information) 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.

Form and format of information
An exception under regulation 6 (1)(b) of the EIRs (Form and format of information) applies to all of this information because the information is already publicly available and easily accessible to the applicant in another form or format.

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FOI202100167827 - Information released

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