Details of all closure orders since 2020
Request received 18 August 2026
I would like to request: Details of all Closure Orders obtained by the council under Part 4 Chapter 3 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, since 1 January 2020.
For each order, please provide:
- Premises address
- Postcode
- Business name (where applicable)
- Date Closure Order granted
- Duration of order
- Whether the premises was commercial, residential, or mixed-use
- Primary reason for the action
- Whether the action related to illicit tobacco, illicit vapes, counterfeit goods, drug offences, anti-social behaviour, immigration offences, or other.
- Whether the case was led by the council, police, or jointly.
Additionally, please provide annual totals for the total number of Closure Orders granted in each year from 2020 to 2025 inclusive.
Responded 11 September 2026
Closure Orders signed by the Council are published on our website under ‘Officer Decision Records’.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act:
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
c) State why the exemption applies:
The information requested is accessible to you via other means at: Officer decision record | East Cambridgeshire District Council
Section 21 states the following:
1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under Section 1 is exempt information.
2) For the purposes of subsection (1) –
a. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
b. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
Therefore, as the Council publish this information, the information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Act.