Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
- Date 30 November 2022
- Sector Local government
- Decision(s) EIR 12.5.e: Not upheld
The complainant requested various information from Reigate and Banstead Borough Council (‘the Council’) in relation to Project Baseball and its crematorium proposal. The Council refused to disclose two documents falling within the scope of the request citing regulation 12(5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial information) and regulation 12(5)(c) (intellectual property rights), of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (‘the EIR’). The Commissioner’s decision is that Reigate and Banstead Borough Council were entitled to rely on regulation 12(5)(e) of the EIR to refuse to disclose the information contained within both documents.