FOI release

Request for documents: NW/01PEA0039/003

Case reference EIR2026/18445

Received 16 April 2026

Published 21 April 2026

Request

I would like to request environmental permit (Discharges to Water and Groundwater) number NW/01PEA0039/003 - UNITED UTILITIES WATER LIMITED.

Response

RE: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)/Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR)

We refer to your request for information of 15/4/26 regarding NW/01PEA0039/003 - UNITED UTILITIES WATER LIMITED.

We deal with requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). The Act requires that we respond to requests by advising you whether or not information is held, and if so by providing you with that information.

EIR Regulation 3(2) states that information is held if it is in our possession and has been produced or received by us, or it is held by another person on our behalf at the time the request is received. 

Information not held by us

Unfortunately we no longer have a copy of this document.

In this case, the information you have requested is not held by the Environment Agency, and we are therefore refusing your request on the grounds that there is no information we can provide. 

Where a request is for environmental information, the Regulations allow us to refuse to disclose it if the exception at EIR Regulation 12(4)(a) applies. The regulation states that a public authority may refuse to disclose environmental information to the extent that it does not hold that information when an applicant’s request is received. 

It is not possible for us to conduct a public interest balancing test because the reason for non-disclosure is that the information is not held.  

Rights of appeal

If you are not satisfied with our response to your request for information, you can contact us within 2 calendar months to ask for our decision to be reviewed. If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to the Information Commissioner, who is the statutory regulator for Freedom of Information. The address is: Office of the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Environment Agency's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.