My Ref:
IG-13554
Your Ref:
Contact:
Freedom of Information Team
Email:
xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Freedom of Information Team
Information Compliance
Legal & Governance
2nd Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
Requester
NG2 3NG
Tel: 0115 876 4376
At contact address specified for request number above
Email:
xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
15 April 2020
Dear Requester
Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act)
The council has considered your request which was received on 6 April 2020 and our
response to your questions is shown below.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request data
regarding the number of motorists issued PCNs for wrongly parking in
designated disabled person’s parking bays.
Can I please receive a total count of PCNs issued for violating the following
contravention codes:
Code 40. ‘Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without
displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.’
Code 87. ‘Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without
displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.’
I wish to solely receive the total amount of PCNs motorists have been issued
for violating these codes.
If I could please receive this total count for the time period of 01/04/2018 -
31/03/2019 that would be fantastic.
The council has determined that this information is exempt from disclosure in
accordance with section 21(1) of the Act as it is reasonably accessible to you by other
means and publically available. The council publishes data related to PCNs on the
council’s Open Data webpage, accessible via the below link. Please be advised that
this information is recorded by calendar year, not financial:
https://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/dataset.aspx?id=106
The spreadsheets on the right hand side of the page give details of all PCNs issued
by the council since 2008. You can open the files for 2018 and 2019 and filter the
column titled ‘issue_date’ to find PCNs issued within the period you have outlined.
You can then filtee the contravention column to show only the following
contraventions:
• Parked in a designated disabled persons parking place without displaying a
valid disabled persons badge in the prescribed manner
• Parked in a designated Disabled Persons parking place without clearly
displaying a valid disabled persons badge
• Parked in a disabled person’s parking space without clearly displaying a valid
disabled person’s badge
The council has relied on sections 16 and 21 of the Act as it is providing you with
advice and assistance by directing you to our website where you can find some of the
information you require. Please accept this letter as a partial refusal notice issued in
accordance with section 17 of the Act.
You are free to use any information supplied for your own personal use. If the
information provided is marked as published under
an Open Government Licence you
are free to reuse it, subject to the licence terms. However, if the information is not
published under an Open Government Licence and you wish to reuse it, for example,
by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public you are required to
request permission for re-use of this information under the Re-use of Public Sector
Information Regulations 2005 (RPSI). Your RPSI request must be in writing and
include your name and address for correspondence, and specify the information you
want to re-use and the purpose you intend to use it for.
If you are unhappy with the response provided or with the handling of your request,
you can ask for an internal review in writing stating the reasons for your
dissatisfaction. Your request for an internal review should be made to the council
within forty working days of the date of this letter. Please quote reference IG-13554 in
all communications.
You can contact the Freedom of Information Team either by email:
xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx or writing to the
Freedom of Information Team,
Information Compliance, Legal & Governance, 2nd Floor, Loxley House, Station
Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG.
If you remain unhappy after receiving the response to your initial complaint you can
request an independent review from the Information Commissioner's Office at
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution, Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. You may also contact the
Information Commissioner's Office by telephone on 01625 545745 or by email at
xxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx. Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
Legal & Governance
Nottingham City Council