24 March 2015, Local government (City council)
The complainant has requested information relating to the ‘Galtres Festival’ and the possible use of Rawcliffe Country Park for this event, along with information about the Kaboom fireworks event. The Commissioner’s decision is that City of York Council has correctly applied sections 40(1), 40(2) and 21 to some information. However, he also finds that City of York Council failed to issue a response covering all of the information that it held. The Commissioner requires the public authority to issue a fresh response in accordance with the requirements of FOIA with regard to the new information it found during the course of this investigation that falls within the scope of the requests. If any of this information meets the definition of environmental information found at regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (the EIR), then the response in relation to this information should be issued in accordance with the requirements of the EIR.
FOI 10: Upheld