Hampshire County Council

The complainant has requested planning and complaint information about a particular site. Hampshire County Council (the Council) provided some information and applied section 21 (information accessible to applicant by other means) to other information. However, the complainant believed that further information was held by the Council. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the Council holds additional information which falls within the scope of the request. The Commissioner requires the Council to conduct new searches for any additional information falling within scope of the request and issue a fresh response to the request in which any additional information is either disclosed, or a valid refusal notice issued for any exception it intends to rely on.