Why the secrecy over impoundment licence?

Our waterways project is governed by The Environment Agency and RBWM – the impoundment licence being a publicly available document of official proceedings.

Within this licence a method statement has to be complied with by the licence holder, which is RBWM.

Lo and behold a request to view the method statement is rejected by the agency, hiding behind The Freedom of Information Act. Reference No 220826EJR14 from EA’s Wallingford office is quoted in case other readers care to extract the secret statement, or try to.

MDG Forlease Drive

Maidenhead