Purton Parish Council

The complainant requested information from Purton Parish Council (“the Council”) relating to the revision of a neighbourhood plan. The Commissioner’s decision is that by failing to correctly identify the requested information and subsequently make that information available the Council has breached regulation 5(1) of the EIR. He also finds that the Council has breached regulation 5(2) of the EIR by failing to provide the requested information within 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the Council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. The Council must provide the complainant with a fresh response to their information request which either discloses the requested information or issue a refusal notice which complies with regulation 14 of the EIR. The Council must take these steps within 30 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of the Act and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.