Gateway Road Reuse and Recycling Centre is now closed.
Request
What is the long term future of the Barrowell Green recycling centre? Are there plans to decommission it, and where can information about this be found?
Response
REF: Request for information about the Barrowell Green Reuse and Recycling Centre (RRC), Enfield
Thank you for your request of 17 June 2021 regarding the above. This request is being handled under the Environmental Information Regulations (EiR) 2004 and has been allocated the reference number 2021-121[1].
You asked if we could provide the following information regarding:
- What is the long-term future of the Barrowell Green recycling centre?
- Are there plans to decommission it, and
- Where can information about this be found?
There are eight reuse and recycling centres in north London, with information about them all on the following page of the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) website https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/places-to-recycle/resource-recycling-centres
However, the Barrowell Green site is managed by London Borough of Enfield, not by NLWA, so unfortunately, we cannot answer your request for information about this site. Accordingly, this letter acts a refusal notice under EiR Regulation 12 (4): (a) [the] Authority does not hold the information.
Can I suggest contacting London Borough of Enfield directly with your request? Details of how to make a request for information from them are available here:
https://new.enfield.gov.uk/contact-us/ask-for-council-information/
I am sorry we cannot provide you with the information you are looking for about the Barrowell Green RRC, but if I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have additional and/or more requests for information.
If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to appeal, please reply to this email or submit a complaint via our website complaints page at: https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/enquiry-form
Your request should be submitted to us within 40 working days of receipt by you of this response.
If you are still not satisfied, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113
Yours sincerely,
[1] Given the nature of our activities and the fact that environmental information is interpreted quite broadly we now generally answer information requests under the Environmental Information Regulations rather than the Freedom of Information Act. Further detail is available at: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/environmental_information.aspx
