“The Civic Centre in Plymouth was sold to developers Urban Splash for £1, it has emerged.
Plymouth City Council confirmed that it received payment of £1 for the sale of the 14-storey local authority headquarters in the city centre. …
… The city council provided the £1 figure to David Every after a Freedom of Information inquiry. The council initially withheld the information, but finally reversed that decision this week.”
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-s-Civic-Centre-sold-1/story-29385867-detail/story.html
East Devon Watch 
We have been here before.
EVen though EDDC have to provide the information they will refuse, then if the requestor is stubborn enough he will take it to the ICO who will rule that EDDC must provide the information. EDDC will appeal and it will eventually get to a First Tier Tribunal where, after a lengthy prevarication by EDDC, the tribunal will rule that the information must be disclosed.
But by this time, perhaps some 2 years later, the decisions will have been made, the Knowle sold and razed to the ground, and the delay will have rendered the information effectively useless. And of course, the significant legal costs incurred by EDDC will be paid for out of the ill-gotten proceeds of the sale.
And of course, when the business case that the Knowle sale is predicated on is shown to have been wildly wrong, and the new council offices are actually costing us far, far more than the Knowle would have done, there will be some pretend wringing of hands and excuses that it was the best guess …. sorry I mean estimate … at the time.
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