FT/EA/2024/0207 - [2025] UKFTT 01276 (GRC)

For completeness, we also briefly address the issue of the application of the EIRs to the Request, notwithstanding that there was no dispute between the parties on this point.

We find that the EIRs do apply to the Request. The Requested Information fundamentally relates to information shared with the Authority regarding its investigation about the Fire. Also, having regard to the nature and content of the Withheld Information, we find that it is relates to the factors affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment and/or measures or activities designed to protect those elements (in each case, as referred to in regulation 2(1), set out in paragraph 32). Consequently, we find that the Withheld Information comprises information ‘on’ the environment for the purposes of the definition of ‘environmental information’ in regulation 2(1).

For convenience, we use the term “information” below to refer (where the context permits) to environmental information within the scope of the EIRs.