International Finance Centre environmental review (FOI)

Request

International Finance Centre, building 5 (IFC5), St Helier, Jersey

CBRE Environmental has been commissioned to undertake an environmental review of the above referenced site (a plan is attached). We would therefore be grateful if you could search your records for this site.

IFC site boundary

In particular, please respond to the following questions, although any additional information would be useful:

A

Has the site been identified for inspection or further review under the Council’s Contaminated Land Strategy (or other Part IIA undertaking)? If so, please describe the priority status / risk ranking of the site and the likely timescale for any further scrutiny of the site?

B

Are there any known contamination issues associated with the site or in the near vicinity eg in terms of former or current contaminative site uses, leaks or spills of any oil / chemical substances and so on? If there have been any intrusive investigations at the site or near vicinity, please provide dates and titles of any reports and confirm whether the reports are publicly available.

C

Please provide the following details of any current or former landfills located within a 250m radius of the site:

1. the location of all landfills, both closed and operational (ie National Grid Reference (NGR) and location plan if available)

2. dates when the landfill was operational

3. types of waste deposited

4. any information on volume of waste deposited, depth of infilling and landfill structure

5. details of any landfill gas monitoring, site investigation or gas spiking undertaken at the landfill or in the immediate vicinity of the site

D

Are there any known current or former nuisance issues, prosecutions or enforcements associated with the site or adjoining properties, eg noise, odour or dust issues / complaints? If yes, what was the nature of the issue and what was the outcome?

E

Are there any known private water supplies recorded on your Local Authority Private Water Supply Register, within 2km radius of the site? If yes what is the location (ie NGR), the source of abstraction and its purpose?

F

Do you hold any records of flooding at the subject site?

G

Please provide details of any LAAPC / LAPPC authorisations licensed to the site or to adjoining properties.

H

Can you please inform me of any charge as soon as possible for the above work and an estimate of the length of time it will take to respond?

I

If possible, please enclose a copy of your Contaminated Land Strategy with your responses to the above questions.

Response

A

The States of Jersey does not have a Contaminated Land Strategy and EPA Part IIA does not apply in Jersey.

B

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is already accessibly to you by way of a standard Land Contamination Search, via the on-line planning register and/or within the States Reports Section on the States of Jersey Website.

To request a Land Contamination Search please email the details of your request to: envprotection@gov.je

Various environmental management reports and other documents are available for you to view via the online planning register at the link below:

Online Planning Register

The International Finance Centre, Building 5 was constructed in area of the Island known as the ‘Esplanade Quarter’. Reports and Consultation documents relating to the Esplanade Quarter are available for you to view on the States of Jersey website at the following addresses:

Consultations

2019 reports

C

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessibly to you by way of a standard Land Contamination Search.

To request a Land Contamination Search please email details of your request to envprotection@gov.je

D

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessibly to you by way of a standard Environment Health Property Search.

Information on how to request an Environmental Health Property Search can be found on the States of Jersey website at the following address:

Property searches when buying a house or business

E

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessible to you by other means.

Details of registered and licensed water sources are available to you via the States of Jersey website at the following address:

Jersey water pollution risk map

Please note that Environmental Protection cannot guarantee that all sources that may be in use have been registered or licenced.

Information regarding abstraction purposes and grid references can be obtained via a standard Environmental Protection Property Search. To request this information please email details of your request to envprotection@gov.je

F

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessible to you by a standard Drains and Sewerage Property Search.

Information on how to request a Drainage and Sewerage Property Search can be found on the States of Jersey website at the following address:

Property searches when buying a house or business

G

The Environmental Protection Act does not apply to Jersey and there is no Part A / B equivalent.

H

Details of charges and response times for the various land and property searches are available on the States of Jersey Website at the following address:

Property searches when buying a house or business

I

Please see response to Question A above.

Exemptions applied:

Article 23 - information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.