11,000 jobs and halving traffic on the A6

Dear Mrs Oliver,

 

Thank you for your request for information below which has been given
reference FOI 5177. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your
request.

 

Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days. If
there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to
provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if
you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they
amount to less than £10.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Corporate Information Services

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

 

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Dear Mrs Oliver

 

I am writing in response to your request for information below (Ref 5034).
I apologise for the slight delay.

 

The response to your request has been prepared by the relevant Council
service and is as follows:

 

You requested documentary evidence of the predictions  Councillor Goddard
was quoted as making in recent interview to the Stockport Express . It is
assumed you are requesting information that the Council holds on the
impact on traffic in Hazel Grove of the SEMMMS scheme and the number of
jobs that would be supported by the building of the scheme.

 

We understand that Councillor Goddard was referring to information he had
previously received as part of the previous consultation. We attach a
detail from the traffic data displayed as part of that Consultation on the
SEMMMS Relief Road which related to predicted traffic impact in Hazel
Grove.

 

You also requested information held by the Council with regard to the
number of additional jobs predicted to be supported by the scheme by 2030
.This information  was taken from a briefing document which I enclose. The
detailed report from which this figure was obtained was prepared by a
specialist consultant and is based on an appraisal of the potential of
individual existing and future employment sites  however this information
 will not be released as it is exempt from disclosure as it is contained
in a  document that is considered commercially sensitive by the report
writer because of the detailed commercial appraisal; therefore the
information is exempt under section 43(2) Freedom Of Information Act2000
(FOIA). This is a qualified exemption and can only be applied if it is in
the public interest to withhold the information. With this in mind we have
carried out a public interest test which is as follows.

 

 

Factors in favour of disclosure:

 

•           The development of the road scheme is of interest to local
residents.

 

Factors in favour of withholding

 

•           The information held is only an appraisal and disclosing the
information may prejudice future development of the sites identified in
the report.

 

 

The information you have requested will also be publically available in
the future therefore the information you have requested is also exempt
under Section 22(2) Freedom Of Information Act2000 (FOIA).

 

We have concluded that to prejudice the future development of the sites is
not in the public interest also the information will be published in the
future.

 

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information, you are entitled to ask for an internal review; however you
must do so within 40 working days of the date of this response. Any
internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was
not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review,
contact [email address] in the first instance.

 

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Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

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Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

www.ico.gov.uk

 

01625 545 745

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Corporate Information services

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

 

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