The sink hole(s) on Boston Road South in Holbeach. - Find a freedom of information request

I would like to make a request to your highways department under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the sink hole(s) on Boston Road South in Holbeach.

Please can you provide:

1. Details of the causes and issues of the sink hole, please list by date they occurred if possible?

2. Copies of communications between Lincolnshire County Council and Anglian Water since 2019 regarding the sink hole, the asset, and any issues associated with it?

3. Any images of the asset you hold, please date when the images were taken if possible?

4. The cost to the authority to tackle the problem since 2019 up to the date you process this FOI.

Lincolnshire County Council have determined that the information you are seeking disclosure of is “environmental” information as it relates to information on "the state of the elements of the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites including wetlands, coastal and marine areas, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements" and "factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment, affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment…" under Regulation 2(1)(a) and (b) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and "measures (including administrative measures), such as policies, legislation, plans, programmes, environmental agreements, and activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors referred to in 2(1)(a) and(b), as well as measures or activities designed to protect those elements" under Regulation 2(1)(c).

The information requested is therefore exempt from disclosure under section 39 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) as it relates to environmental information.

Requests for environmental information must be considered for disclosure under the terms of the EIR, rather than the FOIA and we have therefore considered your request under the EIR.

Please find attached copies of the information requested. 

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and these can be provided.