Natural Resources Wales
- Date 26 April 2016
- Sector Other
- Decision(s) EIR 12.5.b: Not upheld, EIR 5.3: Not upheld
The complainants requested a copy of legal advice relating to a proposed access route to a planned wind farm development. Natural Resources Wales withheld the information requested by virtue of regulations 12(5)(b) and 12(5)(f) of the EIR. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation Natural Resources Wales acknowledged that some of the withheld information constituted the complainants’ own personal data. The Commissioner’s decision is that some information was correctly withheld under regulation 12(5)(b) of the EIR. The remaining information is the complainants’ own personal data and is therefore exempt under regulation 5(3) of the EIR.