Description of Byways Open to All Traffic in Oxfordshire

Our reference: 1145 FOI

Dear Mr Davis,

Thank you for your request of 3 February 2009 in which you asked for the
following information:

Please could you supply me with a list of Byways Open to All

Traffic in Oxfordshire, with a description of each byway,

sufficient to locate it's route.

If possible could this information be in a documented, open,

computer readable format, such as a series of Geography Markup

Language geometries.

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested as soon as possible and in any event within the next 20 working
days in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an
exemption applies. This means that the council will respond to you by 3
March 2009.

There may be a fee payable for this information. You will be informed if
this is the case and you can decide if you wish to proceed with your
request.

If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.

Please contact me if you have any have further enquiries about your
request. I would be grateful if you could quote the reference number given
at the top of this email.

Yours sincerely,

Rachel Skeet
Information Officer

Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND

Tel: 01865 815889
Fax: 01865 247805

E-mail: [1][email address] (direct)
E-mail: [2][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: [3]www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Our reference: 1145 FOI

Dear Mr Davis,

Thank you for your request of 3 February in which you asked for the
following information:

Please could you supply me with a list of Byways Open to All

Traffic in Oxfordshire, with a description of each byway,

sufficient to locate it's route.

If possible could this information be in a documented, open,

computer readable format, such as a series of Geography Markup

Language geometries.

This information is not available to you under the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) because an exemption applies. In this case the exemption is
Section 21 of the FOIA, namely that the information is reasonably
accessible to the applicant by other means.

Byways Open to All Traffic in Oxfordshire are included on the Definitive
Map and Statement (DM&S) of Public Rights of Way for Oxfordshire, (i.e.
the legal record of public footpaths, bridleways, byways and restricted
byways) which has a relevant date of 1 February 2006. This is available
for public inspection at locations throughout Oxfordshire. Information
about the DM&S and where you can go to see it is available on Oxfordshire
County Council's public website [1]www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/definitivemap.

In addition, this information is passed to Ordnance Survey which shows
Byways Open to All Traffic and other public rights of way on its
`Landranger' and `Explorer' series of maps.

Feedback

Following our completion of your information request, we would be grateful
if you would take a few minutes to give us some feedback.

Please click on the weblink below to open a short survey which should take
less than 5 minutes to complete.

[2]http://portal.oxfordshire.gov.uk/content...

Responses are anonymous and will help us improve our service. Thank you.

Help Us To get It Right

If you are dissatisfied with the service or response you have received you
can complain as follows:

o Use the online complaints form on our website -
[3]www.oxfordshire.gov.uk;

o Complete the leaflet "How do I complain about a council service?".
Copies are available from any Oxfordshire library or by telephoning 01865
815906. Large print and audio tape versions are available on request from
this number;

o Write to us at our FREEPOST address:

Complaints and Comments
Oxfordshire County Council
FREEPOST (SCE 7709)
Oxford OX1 1YA.

Please let me know if you have further enquiries. I would be grateful if
you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.

Yours sincerely,

Rachel Skeet
Information Officer

Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND

Tel: 01865 815889
Fax: 01865 247805

E-mail: [4][email address] (direct)
E-mail: [5][Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: [6]www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Davis,

Thank you for your message. I have sent it to the council's Complaints
team who will arrange to have your request reviewed.

Yours sincerely,

Rachel Skeet
Information Officer

Oxfordshire County Council
Corporate Core
Freedom of Information Team
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND

Tel: 01865 815889
Fax: 01865 247805

E-mail: [email address] (direct)
E-mail: [Oxfordshire County Council request email] (FOI team)
Internet: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Davis

I refer to your email of 09 February, which was sent to Rachel Skeet,
requesting a further review of your FOI request. To ensure we give proper
consideration to your concerns we will deal with this at stage 1 of the
Council's complaints procedure, a copy of the procedure is attached for
your information.

Your complaint will be investigated at Stage 1 of the procedure by Glenn
Watson, Democratic Support Manager he will let you have a response within
10 days of date of this acknowledgment i.e. by 24 February. If your are
unhappy with the response you receive at stage 1 the next step will be to
contact the Information commissioner and you will be given details of how
to do this within the response.

Yours sincerely

Michele Cooke

Complaints Officer
Legal & Democratic Services
Oxfordshire County Council
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND

Tel. 01865 815906
[email address]
michele.cooke@oxfordshire. gov.uk

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Dear Mr Davis
I am writing in response to your request for a further review of the
Freedom of Information request which you made, requesting details of
Byways Open to All Traffic in Oxfordshire (ideally in a Geographic Markup
Language).

I have reviewed this matter and, unfortunately, we are not able to supply
this information to you in the manner in which you wish to receive it.
This is because, unlike some local authorities, the County Council does
not have either the Definitive Map or the Statement available in
electronic form. A project is in the early stages of development with a
view to producing the information in such a format, but the timescales for
this are not imminent and the information is certainly not available now
and is unlikely to be so for the forseeable future.

It would have been helpful if the previous response to you had been more
explicit about the reasons why we could not supply the requested
information to you. However, I am sorry that the Council cannot comply
with your request: if we were able to do so, we would be happy to oblige
you but unfortunately we cannot.

This is why the previous reply directed you to the locations of the hard
copies of our Definitive Map and Statement. I again attach a link (at the
foot of this email) to our website, which specifies the locations.

You are at liberty to take your concerns further with the Information
Commissioner's office (details below) if you are not satisfied with my
response. I am sorry not to be able to assist you further directly.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted as follows: The Office of
the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF [1]www.ico.gov.uk (for information, enquiries,
complaints) ICO Helpline: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

Yours sincerely

Glenn Watson

Democratic Support Manager
Oxfordshire County Council
Democratic Services
County Hall
Oxford
OX1 1ND
01865 815270
Fax: 01865 247805

Link to County Council website - Definitive Map and Statement locations:

[2]http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wps/portal...

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Dear Mr Davis

Oxfordshire County Council Corporate Complaints Procedure:
Customer satisfaction Survey

I am writing to you because you have recently used Oxfordshire County
Council's Corporate Complaints Procedure.

Oxfordshire County Council is carrying out a survey to seek views on how
we investigate complaints and how we can make our procedure better.

I would be very grateful if you could complete the enclosed form and
return it to the following email address [1][email address]
. Please note that this relates to complaints which were handled through
the Corporate Complaints procedure.

The survey is confidential but not anonymous in that although we do not
ask you to provide your name or details of your complaint, there is a
reference number on the form so that we are able to identify which
complaint the survey relates to. This is in order for the Council to be
able to learn from complaints.

Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Rowan

Senior Complaints Officer

Enc: Customer satisfaction survey

Michele Cooke

Complaints Officer
Legal & Democratic Services
Oxfordshire County Council
County Hall
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1ND

Tel. 01865 815906
[email address]
michele.cooke@oxfordshire. gov.uk

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