Environment
07 September 2008


Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR's)

The EIR's allow people to have access to information that the Council holds about the environment or factors affecting the environment or the state of human health and safety in the South Bucks District.

  • The state of the elements
  • Air and atmosphere
  • Water
  • Soil
  • Land (land surfaces, buildings, land covered by water, and underground strata)
  • Landscape (the traits, patterns and structure of a specific geographic area)
  • Natural sites, including wetlands, coastal and marine areas
  • Biological diversity and its components
  • The state of human health and safety, including contamination of the food chain
  • Conditions of human life (social and environmental factors)
  • Cultural sites
  • Built structures

Plus factors such as:

  • Substances
  • Energy
  • Noise
  • Radiation or waste, including radioactive waste
  • Emissions, discharges and other releases
  • Those affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment referred to in the first list above

Any request for information held by/on behalf of a public authority or a body carrying out a public function is technically an FOI request in the first instance.  Section 39 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) then exempts environmental information from being dealt with under the FOI Act and provides it should be dealt with under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

Be aware however that a great deal of information about the environment is already published or in the public domain. Look in the Environment section of the website or;
Please select this link to refer to the Council's publication scheme   

If you wish to make a request for information about the environment in South Bucks under the EIR's then please contact : 

The FOI officer
South Bucks District Council
Council offices
Capswood
Oxford Road
Denham, Bucks
UB9 4LH

Tel: 01895 837 200
email: foi@southbucks.gov.uk