Request for documents: NW/CM0080501/001
Case reference EIR2026/19187
Received 20 April 2026
Published 5 May 2026
Request
I would like to request environmental permit (Discharges to Water and Groundwater) number NW/CM0080501/001 - DWR CYMRU CYFYNGEDIG.
Response
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 20 April 2026, regarding Request for documents: NW/CM0080501/001.
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. It was issued and revoked before the Environment Agency was established in 1996.
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 decision, you can contact us within two calendar months to ask for the decision to be reviewed. We will then conduct an internal review of our response to your request and give you our decision in writing within 40 working days.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review, you can then make an appeal to the Information Commissioner Office, the statutory regulator for the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please follow this link to the ICO online complaints portal. The address is: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.
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Documents
This is Environment Agency's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.