Sheffield City Council

The complainant made a request for information relating to Traffic Regulation Order Harwood Street. Sheffield City Council (the Council) provided three copies of documents within scope of the request with the signatures redacted. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council should have dealt with the request under the EIR. However, having done so, it would have been entitled to rely on Regulation 13(1) of the EIR to withhold the signatures contained in the three traffic regulation order documents. The public authority breached regulation 14 of the EIR as it failed to deal with the request under the EIR. The Council also breached regulation 2(1) of the EIR as it failed to provide all information within scope of the request, the Commissioner requires the Council to provide the full version of the ‘Outer Order Consolidation 2008’, or issue a fresh refusal to the complainant that is compliant with the EIR.