Our guide to information we publish includes the environmental information we publish.

If you are unable to find the environmental information you are looking for, you can submit an information request

or you can make a request by contacting our Corporate Officer;

• email: informationrequests@albynhousing.org.uk
• write to: Corporate Officer 98-104 High Street, Invergordon, Ross-shire, IV18 0DL
• call us and say you want to make an Environmental Information Request.

The Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner has prepared tips for requester guidance.

We will make environmental information available to any person who requests it within 20 working days (or, where the request is large and complex, within 40 working days).

There are exceptions within the regulations which may allow us to refuse to comply with your request for example, the information is not held.

Where an exception applies to the facts of your request, when we respond, we will set out the reasons for withholding the information, together with details of the mechanism for review and appeal.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request and wish to seek a review, please write to:

Corporate Officer, 98-104 High Street, Invergordon, Ross-shire, IV18 0DL

Should you remain unhappy with the handling of your request and the review, you may wish to contact the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office.

The Scottish Information Commissioner’s office provides useful guidance on the meaning of environmental information and the rules that apply.

Requests under Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs) allows public authorities to charge a ‘reasonable amount’ for making environmental information available. There is no upper or lower charging limits for requests, although any fee charged will not exceed the total cost of making the information available.

Charges may be made for locating, retrieving and providing information to you at the actual cost of staff hourly rate. In the instances where charges are applied, a full breakdown of costs will be given to you and the information will not be supplied to you unless full payment has been received.

You will have 3 months from the date of issue of the fees notice in which to decide whether to pay the charge. If you decide not to proceed with the request there will be no charge.

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