Stratford-on-Avon District Council

The complainant has requested copies of correspondence from 2018, between a property management company and Stratford-on-Avon District Council (‘SADC’). SADC said that communications with its planning department were routinely deleted after four years, in line with its records management policy. Targeted searches provided additional confirmation that it did not hold the requested information. It refused the request under regulation 12(4)(a) (Information not held) of the EIR. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, SADC does not hold the requested information.