14 October 2015, Health (Other)
The complainant has requested access to databases listing properties at risk of low water pressure (DG2) and properties at risk of internal sewer flooding (DG5). Northumbrian Water Ltd applied the exceptions at regulations 13(1), 12(4)(b), 12(5)(c) and 12(5)(f) of the EIR to the DG5 database and said that the DG2 database does not constitute environmental information but if the Commissioner decides that it does, the same exceptions apply. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DG2 database does constitute environmental information and that Northumbrian Water Ltd has correctly withheld the requested information under the exception for personal data at regulation 13. He does not require any steps to be taken.
EIR 13(1): Not upheld