Will I always be granted permission to re-use documents?

Not always. The Regulations allow the Council to refuse requests for one or more of the following reasons:-

• the document contains information in which intellectual property rights are owned by a third party. An example would be architectural drawings which the Council has commissioned from an architect who retains the copyright
• the content of the document is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
• the document falls outside the Council's statutory functions

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