Stroud District Council

The complainant has requested information relating to Stroud District Council’s local plan. Stroud District Council (‘SDC’) referred the complainant to published information in its online Local Plan Examination Library and said that it did not hold any further information falling within the request’s scope. The complainant believed that it held further information regarding a specific point. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, at the time of the request, SDC did not hold further information and that it complied with its duty under regulation 5(1) to make the environmental information it did hold, available. He is therefore satisfied that it was entitled to rely on regulation 12(5)(a) of the EIR.