The complainant has requested information about maintenance work carried out in a particular area. Hemingbrough Parish Council had failed to issue a substantive response at the date of this notice. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Parish Council has failed to respond to the request within 20 working days and has therefore breached Regulation 5(2) of the Environmental Information Regulations (‘the EIR’). The Commissioner requires the Parish Council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: issue a substantive response, under the EIR, to the request.
EIR 5(2): Complaint upheld
Citations:
[2021] UKICO ic-136504
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Information
Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.675095