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Eynsford Parish Council
23 March 2015, Local government (Parish council)
The complainant requested various items of information relating to railway sleepers placed along one edge of an access road into a car park owned by Eynsford Parish Council (“the council”). The council said that the requests were vexatious under section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the FOIA”). The Information Commissioner’s decision is that some of the requests were correctly refused using section 14(1) and the remaining requests were excepted under regulation 12(4)(b) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (“the EIR”), which relates to manifestly unreasonable requests. The public interest favoured withholding this information. The Commissioner has found that the council breached regulation 14(2) and 14(3)(a) and (b) for failing to rely on regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR. The Commissioner does not require any steps to be taken.
FOI 14: Not upheld EIR 12(4)(b): Not upheld