There have been some very interesting comments on this issue of publically available and public. In particular the insurance issue arising from using or relying information without proper permissions. I have even seen Phase 1 studies that had SCREEN DUMPS from the WIMBY site, I wonder how this impacts their PL Insurance??
The FOIA, Environmental Information Act etc exist to allow concerned members of the genera public access to Environmental data. I remember once being told that WIMBY site often had *0,000 hits per day... I had never realised that we had so many concerned citizens.
Jon Coleman
www.findmaps.co.uk
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