Link for IOC full Decision notice pdf file: Denbighshire County Council (Local government) [2025] UKICO 345640 (22 May 2025)
The complainant has requested information from Denbighshire County Council (the Council) relating to a named property. The Council initially cited section 12 FOIA which it later changed to regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR - manifestly unreasonable. However, the Council did provide some information, part of which it withheld under regulations 13 (personal data) and 12(5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial or industrial information) of the EIR. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the Council applied regulation 12(4)(b) appropriately and that the public interest favours maintaining the exception. He has also decided that the Council applied regulations 13 and 12(5)(e) correctly. By failing to provide a response within 20 working days, the Commissioner finds that the Council has breached regulation 5(2) of the EIR. The Commissioner does not require further steps.