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Information Commissioner's Office

You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Information Commissioner's Office >> Sheffield City Council (Local government) [2018] UKICO fer0741644 (13 August 2018)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2018/fer0741644.html
Cite as: [2018] UKICO fer0741644, [2018] UKICO fer741644

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Sheffield City Council

The complainant requested information about various engineering solutions used to maintain trees in accordance with a specified tree management plan. Sheffield City Council (the ‘Council’) refused the request on the grounds that it considered it to be manifestly unreasonable in accordance with Regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR, due to the significant burden imposed on the Council by the request in terms of cost grounds. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council has applied Regulation 12(4)(b) to the complainant’s request correctly. She finds that the weight of the public interest lies in maintaining the Council’s application of this exception. However, she also finds that the Council breached regulation 11 of the EIR by failing to carry out an internal review within the statutory 40 working days’ time limit.

EIR 9: Complaint not upheld EIR 11: Complaint upheld EIR 12(4)(b): Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: fer0741644