Highways Committee minutes

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Dear Lewisham Borough Council,
May I please have sight of Lewisham Highways Committee minutes from 20 September 2017 to present.

Yours faithfully,

Roger Williams

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear Mr Williams,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 449711

Thank you for your recent request for information from the London Borough of Lewisham. Your request is being handled under either the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

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There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of the information requested where the request exceeds the statutory limit or where disbursements exceed £10. In such cases you will be informed in writing and your request will be suspended until we receive payment from you or your request is modified and/or reduced.

Your request may require either full or partial transfer to another public authority. You will be informed if your request is transferred. If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will notify you of this together with the reason(s) why and details of how you may appeal (if appropriate). Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further information where we believe that the request is not significantly clear for us to respond fully.

Kind Regards,

Corporate Complaints and Casework Team

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Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear Mr Williams

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information held by London Borough of
Lewisham. I have included below a copy of your request, followed by the
Council’s response next to each heading.

·         May I please have sight of Lewisham Highways Committee minutes
from 20 September 2017 to present.

We do not have a Highways Committee, but under our duty to advise and
assist we have interpreted the request to mean minutes of any decisions
and discussions from:

- Mayor & Cabinet

- Sustainable Development Select Committee

- Public Transport Liaison Committee

We apply Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, ‘Information
reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means’, to your request.
We have published information relating to the above meetings on our
website –

[1]http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/i...

[2]http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/i...

[3]https://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Search/Pages...

 

Section 21 states:

(1) Information which is readily available 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 upon payment.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a
public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be
regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the
information is available from the public authority itself on request,
unless the information is made available in accordance with the
authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in,
or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

This acts as an exemption notice. Subsection 1 means that the Council is
relieved of the duty to communicate the requested information to an
applicant if there is an existing method

by which the information can be obtained, outside of the operation of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is an absolute exemption and
therefore does not require the public interests balancing test to be
applied. We confirm that the requested information can be accessed through
our public website, using the above link.

We hope you will find this information helpful.

You are free to use the information provided for your own purposes,
including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes
of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication,
requires the permission of the copyright holder. You may apply for
permission to re-use this information by submitting a request to
[4][email address]

You have a right of appeal against this response which you can exercise by
writing to: Information Governance – 1st floor Town Hall Chambers,
Catford, London. SE6 4RU. Or at: [5][email address]

This must be requested within 40 working days of the date of this
response.

If you remain dissatisfied after receiving this decision, you then also
have a further right of appeal, which you can make in writing, stating
your reasons to the regulating body, the Information Commissioner's
Office. Contact details are outlined below:

[6]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

 

 

Toine Bernard

 

Senior Customer Resolutions Officer

Corporate Complaints, Casework & Information Governance Team.

[7][email address]

 

London Borough of Lewisham

Address 5^th Floor Laurence House, 1 Catford Road, London, SE6 4RU.

Email [8][email address]

 

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