FT/EA/2024/0299 - [2025] UKFTT 01138 (GRC)

Case Reference: FT/EA/2024/0299

Information Rights

Decided without a hearing

Before

JUDGE CRAGG KC

JUDGE SAWARD

MEMBER WOLF

Between

PETER WILLIAM STYLES

Appellant

and

(1) INFORMATION COMMISSIONER

(2) AFFINITY WATER LIMITED

Respondents

Decision:

(1) The appeal is ALLOWED. The Second Respondent must now supply the information required in the Substituted Decision Notice below.

(2) The Second Respondent is directed to supply a copy of this Decision to the Environment Agency.

(3) Save to the extent required to comply with the Substituted Decision Notice below, the Closed material filed in these proceedings is held by the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 14(6) on the basis that it will not be disclosed to anyone other than the Tribunal.

Substituted Decision Notice:

Affinity Water Limited must, within 35 days of the date of this decision, provide the Appellant with a list of boreholes which abstract water from a chalk aquifer in its area, including the Environment Agency abstraction licence numbers, and the name of the nearest village or town if this is not apparent from the name of the source.

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