ALMONDSBURY PARISH COUNCIL

The Information Commissioners Office has recently found that Almondsbury Parish Council failed to respond to the campaign's request under the Freedom of Information Act. The Council was also found to have ignored correspondence from the Commissioner’s Office. A Decision Notice dated the 28 July has been issued.

During our efforts to obtain information from the Clerk to the Parish Council, we received a final email on the 12 March stating that the then Chair of the Parish Council, Cllr Sheila Cook, was dealing with the matter. Nothing further was received.

The summary of the decision, the request, the scope of the case and the chronology are shown below. In all the notice runs to ten pages.

Readers of the Bristol Evening Post may remember that Cllr Cook objected when we said she had resigned as Chair of Almondsbury Parish Council, in our letter to the Evening Post on 5 June, “show some concern for the safety of the young”. In her letter of response in the Evening Post on 22 June, she said she had decided not to stand for re-election. The exchange continued in the Evening Post on the 27 June, but Cllr Cook did not respond.