SIC Reports by a Planning Adviser – On 7 August 2013, Livingstone Terrace Residents Action Group (LTRAG) asked the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (the SPSO) for copies of reports undertaken by the SPSO’s Planning Adviser. The SPSO withheld the information under section 26(a) of FOISA and regulation 10(5)(d) of the EIRs on the basis that there was a statutory prohibition on its disclosure.
Following an investigation, the Commissioner found that the SPSO was entitled to withhold the requested information under section 26(a) of FOISA and regulation 10(5)(d) of the EIRs. The Commissioner also found that by failing to identify and respond to LTRAG’s information request as one partially seeking environmental information, as defined in regulation 2(1) of the EIRs, the SPSO breached regulations 5(1) and (2)(b) of the EIRs.
The Commissioner did not require the SPSO to take any action.
[2014] ScotIC 007 – 2014
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Updated: 01 December 2021; Ref: scu.522694