Dear Ms Gafney

I confirm receipt of your information request and that I am looking into this.

I will respond to you in due course.

Regards

Information Governance Team
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Dear Ms Gafney,

Further to your recent request for information relating to the above,
which has been dealt with under the Environmental Information Regulations
2004.

You asked for the following information:

‘It is a well known fact that until its repair, Lockwood Scar had been in
a state of disrepair for a number of years.

I would like to know how many complaints you received about the
state/disrepair of the road surface between 2010 and the present date.

Furthermore, could you please confirm the actual date that the works were
given the go-ahead’.

The Council's response to your specific questions is set out below:

There are 96 requests logged on our system reporting both carriageway
damage and potholes for the period 1 January 2010 to 31 July 2018.

The road closure application was sent to the Council on the 8 September
2017.  The permit was applied for to carry out the works on the 30 October
2017.  The works were carried out 30 October 2017 – 17 November 2017.

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Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

The Democracy Service

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