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Cite as: [2015] UKICO FER0562196, [2015] UKICO FER562196
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Royal Borough of Greenwich
15 April 2015, Local government (Borough council)
The complainant requested information about planning objections from the Royal Borough of Greenwich (the ’Council’). Initially, the Council said it did not hold this information; however during the Commissioner’s investigation the Council revised its position. It instead wished to rely on the cost and burden of complying with the request, citing regulation 12(4)(b), manifestly unreasonable, of the EIR. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council has correctly applied the exception for manifestly unreasonable requests at regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR. He also finds that the requested information constitutes environmental information and therefore should have been considered under the EIR from the outset.
EIR 12(4)(b): Not upheld