FOI release

Request for documents: TH/CTCU.0983/001

This request was refused in full, so we didn't provide the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference EIR2026/17373

Received 8 April 2026

Published 23 April 2026

Request

I would like to request environmental permit (Discharges to Water and Groundwater) number TH/CTCU.0983/001 - THE OCCUPIER.

Response

Information not held

This discharge permit was revoked on 1 October 1996. Our retention of records schedule for revoked permits is 7 years from the date of revocation. As a result, we no longer hold a copy of the permit. Please find attached the retention schedule and refer to line 195 with more information on this.

The only details we hold in relation to this permit are what is on the public register - Public Register.

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. 

Documents

• LIT 14913 - Retention schedule.xlsx (109.2 KB)

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