Our reference: 19032 EIR       

Dear Mr Parnham,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 07 November 2021 in which
you asked for the following information:

Regarding the above FOI: when I said "Please therefore provide me with any
non-legally privileged reports / emails / etc regarding any discussions
about temporary modifications to the LTN in:

a) Littlehay Road;

b) Oxford Road (B408) in Cowley;

c) Oxford Road Littlemore"

My focus is both on any actual barriers on these specific roads, and also
on the impact of nearby LTN barriers on these roads, when OCC roadworks
were undertaken on (or near) these roads.

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 Environmental Information Regulations
2004/Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an exception applies. This
means that the council will respond to you by the end of 06 December 2021
at the latest.

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.

Kind regards

Renata Malinowski

Freedom of Information Support Officer

Law and Governance

Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference: 19030 EIR       

Dear Mr Parnham,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 07 November 2021 in which
you asked for the following information:

Under the provisions of the various Cowley LTN experimental orders, The
Director for Infrastructure Delivery/Community Operations of the County
Council is empowered modify these orders "pursuant to and in accordance
with Section 10(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 if it appears
essential in the interest of the expeditious, convenient and safe movement
of traffic".

It is my understanding that the current experimental LTN barrier at
Littlehay Road was temporarily removed around the time of the AJ Bell
Women's Cycle Tour, to temporarily ease congestion that may otherwise have
occurred during the cycle race due to the LTNs. It is also my
understanding that no experimental LTN barriers were temporarily removed
to ease congestion when lengthy roadworks were recently carried out around
Oxford Road (B408) in Cowley or Oxford Road Littlemore. I am therefore
tying to establish why LTNs would be modified to accommodate a cycle race,
but not lengthy road works carried out on behalf of the OCC.

Please therefore provide me with any non-legally privileged reports /
emails /  etc regarding any discussions about temporary modifications to
the LTN in:

a) Littlehay Road;

b) Oxford Road (B408) in Cowley;

c) Oxford Road Littlemore

even if those discussions / reports ultimately did not lead to any changes
to the existing experimental LTN barriers. In essence, I want to
understand the extent of the discussions held, competing considerations
weighed up, and possible changes that were actively discussed but later
discounted. I am particularly interested in discussions / reports / emails
sent / received by the The Director for Infrastructure Delivery/Community
Operations, and / or their colleagues on the Traffic and Road Safety Team,
and also any regulatory specialist advice. If any OCC or Oxford city
councillors participated in such discussions, I would like to receive
those too. I am happy to see third party correspondence (but not OCC
replies) redacted.

My timeframe for my enquiry from 1 March 2021 to 30 September 2021.

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 Environmental Information Regulations
2004/Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an exception applies. This
means that the council will respond to you by the end of 06 December 2021
at the latest.

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.

Kind regards

Renata Malinowski

Freedom of Information Support Officer

Law and Governance

Oxfordshire County Council

Email: [1]E&[email address] and
[2][email address]

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Our reference: 19030 EIR and 19032 EIR

Dear Mr Parnham,

Thank you for your requests of 7^th November 2021 in which you asked for
the following information:

It is my understanding that the current experimental LTN barrier at
Littlehay Road was temporarily removed around the time of the AJ Bell
Women's Cycle Tour, to temporarily ease congestion that may otherwise have
occurred during the cycle race due to the LTNs. It is also my
understanding that no experimental LTN barriers were temporarily removed
to ease congestion when lengthy roadworks were recently carried out around
Oxford Road (B408) in Cowley or Oxford Road Littlemore. I am therefore
trying to establish why LTNs would be modified to accommodate a cycle
race, but not lengthy road works carried out on behalf of the OCC.

Please therefore provide me with any non-legally privileged reports /
emails /  etc regarding any discussions about temporary modifications to
the LTN in:

a) Littlehay Road;

b) Oxford Road (B408) in Cowley;

c) Oxford Road Littlemore

My focus is both on any actual barriers on these specific roads, and also
on the impact of nearby LTN barriers on these roads, when OCC roadworks
were undertaken on (or near) these roads.

As both requests overlap the same subject we have answered under one
response for both.

Please find attached email correspondence which sets-out the
correspondence held in relation to your query with redactions where
applicable.

It was asked by residents if the obstructions were removed for the
duration of the race as some residents would not have been able to go out
at all and be trapped.  Oxfordshire County Council does not hold any
correspondence about other temporary modifications (e.g. due to
roadworks).

The Council has redacted the following information from the disclosure:

 1. The names, addresses and contact details of some third parties who are
not Council staff and
 2. Personal information not related to the request.

The Council considers that this information is exempt from disclosure
under regulation13 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. 
Regulation 13 provides that information shall not be disclosed where it
constitutes the personal data of someone other than the applicant and that
disclosure would satisfy one of the following three conditions:

1. disclosure would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection Act
2018 (manual unstructured data held by public authorities) were
disregarded or,

2. disclosure would contravene Article 21 of the GDPR (general processing:
right to object to processing), or section 99 of the Data Protection Act
2018 (intelligence services processing: right to object to processing).

3. on a request under Article 15(1) of the GDPR (general processing: right
of access by the data subject) for access to personal data, the
information would be withheld in reliance on provision made by or under
section 15, 16 or 26 of, or Schedule 2, 3 or 4 to, the Data Protection Act
2018, on a request under section 45(1)(b) of that Act (law enforcement
processing: right of access by the data subject), the information would be
withheld in reliance on subsection (4) of that section, or on a request
under section 94(1)(b) of that Act (intelligence services processing:
rights of access by the data subject), the information would be withheld
in reliance on a provision of Chapter 6 of Part 4 of that Act.

In this case, the relevant condition is the first condition. 
Specifically, the council considers that the first data protection
principle would be breached; namely, that disclosure of the redacted
information would not be fair for the following reasons:

 1. The reasonable expectations of the data subjects and the nature of the
information itself leads the Council to conclude that the data
subjects could not reasonably expect that this information would be
disclosed;
 2. Neither this, nor similar information has been released into the
public domain by the data subjects or anyone else; and
 3. That the legitimate interests in the public having access to this
information do not outweigh the interests in preserving the rights and
freedoms of the data subjects

In reaching this decision, the Council noted that the following
consequences may occur if this information was disclosed:

 1. The data subject would not expect the information to be released.

In light of the above, the Council considers it justified to uphold this
exemption by applying redactions to the disclosure.

Internal review

If you are dissatisfied with the service or response to your request, you
can ask for an internal review as follows:

o Contact the Freedom of Information team in Law & Governance:

[1][Oxfordshire County Council request email] 

o Write to the Freedom of Information team at the FREEPOST address:

Freedom of Information Team
Oxfordshire County Council
FREEPOST (RTLL-ECKS-GLUA)
Oxford OX1 1YA

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 Website:  [2]https://ico.org.uk

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,

Simon Lymn

Programme Lead

Planning and Place

Oxfordshire County Council

Email: [3][email address]

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