London Borough of Camden

The complainant made a series of requests to London Borough of Camden (the ‘Council’) for various information relating to a proposed residential development. The Council refused the requests and applied sections 12 and 14 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the ‘FOI Act’). However, in the Commissioner’s view the requests relate to environmental information and therefore fall for consideration under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (the ‘EIR’). The Commissioner’s decision is that the requests are manifestly unreasonable and the Council was entitled to refuse them under regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR. However, the Commissioner finds that the Council breached regulation 14 of the EIR in its handling the request. Information Tribunal appeal number EA/2011/0110 dismissed.