Herefordshire Council

The complainant has, on several occasions, requested information associated with the leasing of a property on behalf of the Conserve Africa Foundation by one of its former trustees. Herefordshire County Council (“the Council”) has responded to the complainant’s multi-part requests by providing information or explanations and it has advised him that it does not hold certain pieces of information where this is the correct response under the provisions of the FOIA. The complainant’s protracted correspondence has contained numerous requests for information which seek to go over ground already covered. On examination of this correspondence it is clear to the Commissioner that the complainant is repeating requests he has previously made which have been properly responded to by the Council and it is for this reason that the Commissioner has decided that the Council has appropriately applied section 14(2) of the FOIA. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take no further action in this matter.