Lincolnshire County Council

The complainant requested from Lincolnshire County Council, (‘the council’), information relating to the creation of a Traffic Restriction Order (‘a TRO’) on Silver Street, Bardney. The council applied Regulation 13(1) (personal data of third parties), and Regulation 12(4)(e) (internal communications) to withhold some information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the council was correct to apply Regulation 13(1) to withhold the personal data relating to third parties. He has decided that the council was partially correct to apply Regulation 12(4)(e), however the exception was not applicable to correspondence between the council and its contractor, Balfour Beatty. Finally, the Commissioner has also decided that, on the balance of probabilities, the council was correct to state that it holds no further information falling within the scope of the complainant's request for information. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. To disclose the correspondence between Balfour Beatty and the council, subject to suitable redaction of personal data as required by the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018.