16 October 2014, Local government (Parish council)
The complainant has requested information from the Council concerning the consultation and decision making process adopted by the Council relating to the introduction of a dog control order on Portmellon Beach. The Council provided a late response to the request and initially did not provide any information relying upon section 14 of the FOIA. Subsequent to the Commissioner’s involvement the Council provided some information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council has met its obligations under regulation 12(4)(a) of the EIR in that no further information is held. However it has failed to provide a response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. He upholds this part of the complaint but requires no further action to be taken as a response has now been provided to the complainant.
EIR 12(4)(a): Partly upheld