District of Easington Council

The complainant made a request to the public authority for a copy of a building survey commissioned by Thornley Community Centre Committee on Thornley Community Centre. The public authority withheld the survey citing section 41(1) of the Act; information provided in confidence. The Commissioner has decided that the public authority correctly withheld the building survey information but a coal mining report that was attached to the survey should be released under the Regulations. The Commissioner partly upholds the public authority’s decision and partly upholds the complaint.