Our reference: 18896 EIR

Dear Mr Barnett,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 08 October 2021 in which you
asked for the following information:

Please could you provide me with the full Stage 3 Safety Audit for the
Access to Headington scheme. Ref:
[1]https://mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28...
and the statement by the then Cabinet Member for Environment (including
Transport) "Regarding issues of design for cyclists she considered that
those issues could be considered under the Stage 3 safety audit when
completed with a report on that submitted to her at a future meeting."

This Safety Audit should have been carried out by this time; The Stage 3
Road Safety Audit should be undertaken when the Highway Improvement Scheme
is substantially complete and preferably before the works are opened to
road users. All Highway Improvement schemes should be subjected to a Stage
3 Road Safety Audit within one month of opening.

If the Stage 3 Audit has not yet been carried out, please give a full
explanation as to why this has not happened yet.

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 05 November 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:  18896 EIR

Dear Mr Barnett,

Thank you for your request of 08 October 2021 in which you asked for the
following information:

Please could you provide me with the full Stage 3 Safety Audit for the
Access to Headington scheme. Ref:
[1]https://mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28...
and the statement by the then Cabinet Member for Environment (including
Transport) "Regarding issues of design for cyclists she considered that
those issues could be considered under the Stage 3 safety audit when
completed with a report on that submitted to her at a future meeting."

If the Stage 3 Audit has not yet been carried out, please give a full
explanation as to why this has not happened yet.

Please see attached document titled, ‘Headington Oxford RSA 3 A.pdf’,
‘Cllr Yvonne Constance Message.pdf’ and ‘Reply to Cllr Yvonne Constance
Message.pdf’.

The conflict at the JR Hospital access between people cycling straight on
and cars turning left, the designer added a filter to the signals to
facilitate cyclists going straight ahead and reduce the risk to cyclist
where vehicles turn left to access the John Radcliffe Hospital. That work
and other minor RSA3 recommendations were completed by Summer 2021.

The Council has redacted the following information from the disclosure:

 1. The mobile telephone numbers of all Council staff and
 2. The names, addresses and contact details of some third parties who are
not Council staff.

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 their 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:

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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:  [3]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,

Patrick Mulvihill

Group Manager – Construction & Contract

Growth & Economy

Oxfordshire County Council

Email: Patrick [4][email address]

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