Cardiff Council

The complainant requested information about a specific property. Cardiff Council (‘the Council’) applied regulation 13(1) to the request. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the Council sought to rely on regulation 13(5) to refuse to confirm or deny whether the requested information is held. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council has correctly applied regulation 13(5) to the request. However, the Council failed to issue a valid refusal notice within 20 working days and breached regulation 14 of the EIR.