The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) provide you with a right of access to a wide range of environmental information held by the council.
Environmental information relates to:
- the state of elements of the environment such as air, water, etc.
- the state of human health and safety, conditions of human life, the food chain
- substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste affecting or likely to affect the state of the elements of environmental interaction between them
- administrative measures, policies, legislation, plans, programmes and environmental agreements
- emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment
- cost benefit and other economic analysis used in environmental decision making.