City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

The complainant requested the number of complaints received by Wakefield Council (the council) about noise nuisance at a particular property. The complainant also asked for the number of objections made by local residents to a planning application for the same property which had included concerns about noise. The council provided the complainant with the relevant number of local objections made in relation to the planning application, but refused to provide the number of complaints it had received about noise nuisance, citing regulation 13 (personal data) of the EIR. The Commissioner’s decision is that regulation 13 of the EIR is not engaged in respect of the withheld information. The Commissioner requires the council to disclose the number of complaints received (at the time of the receipt of the request) about noise nuisance for the property.