Summary: The complainant requested minutes of any meetings where the parish council had discussed the removal of signs which had been erected on a footpath by the county council. The Commissioner-™s decision is that Shotteswell Parish Council did not respond to the complainant under the correct legislation. The information is environmental information and the council should have responded to the request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. He has also decided that the council breached the Act in that it did not respond to the complainant within 20 working days as required by regulation 5(2). As the information has now been disclosed to the Commissioner he has not ordered any steps within this decision notice.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: EIR 5 - Complaint Upheld