St Albans District Council

The complainant has requested information from St Albans City and District Council (‘the Council’) about an alleged breach of planning control at their property. The Council said it did not hold the requested information and it directed the complainant to request it from a neighbouring council, which managed the Council’s planning enforcement services on its behalf. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information is ‘held’ by the Council within the meaning of regulation 3(2)(b) of the EIR and that it was responsible for responding to the request. He finds that by failing to do so within 20 working days, the Council breached regulation 5(2) of the EIR.