Council-Owned Car Parking Spaces
Dear Greenwich Borough Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following pieces of information relating to council-owned car parking spaces within the borough:
- The total number of council-owned car parking spaces in the borough. Please specify how many of these are on-street and how many are off-street.
- The names and locations of the off-street car parks and on-street car parking bays.
- The total number of car parking spaces available at each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations. Please specify how many of these are designated disabled/blue badge parking bays.
- The tariffs available at each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations. Please state whether season tickets for each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations can be bought and the associated costs (weekly, monthly, annually).
- Please state whether security CCTV is in place at each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations (as opposed to ANPR/automatic number-plate recognition CCTV used for issuing tickets)
- The amount of revenue generated from each of these council-owned parking locations in the last financial year excluding fines/PCNs.
- The number of PCNs/fines issued at each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations in the last financial year.
- The amount of revenue generated from fines/PCNs at each of the off-street car parks and on-street parking locations in the last financial year.
- The number of fines/PCNs issued in the borough which were unpaid and referred to the Traffic Enforcement Centre in the last financial year.
Please could I receive all information in electronic format and in machine-readable formats where applicable.
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Blacow
Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information request: FOI-33639
Thank you for your request dated 28 October 2019
Your request will be answered by 25 November 2019
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Corporate Services
Directorate of Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 5044
* Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW
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Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information request: FOI-33639
Thank you for your request dated 28 October 2019
Your request is currently being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 and will be progressed as soon as we have received
the clarification requested below.
Please clarify if you mean Penalty Charge Notices or Parking Charge
Notices?
Please quote the reference number in your reply.
If we have not received clarification within 2 months of this email, we
will close the request.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Corporate Services
Directorate of Central Services
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 5044
* Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW
From: foi
Sent: 28 October 2019 09:13
To: 'Ellen Blacow' <[FOI #615775 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: FOI-33639: Freedom of Information request - Council-Owned Car
Parking Spaces
Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information request: FOI-33639
Thank you for your request dated 28 October 2019
Your request will be answered by 25 November 2019
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Corporate Services
Directorate of Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 5044
* Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW
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Good afternoon,
Thank you for responding to my FOI request.
When referring to PCNs, I am referring to Penalty Charge Notices.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Ellen Blacow
Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information request: FOI-33639
Thank you for your clarification dated 10/12/2019.
Your request has been reopened and will now be answered by 10/01/2020.
If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact us
quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 5044
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
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Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information Request: FOI 33659
Thank you for your request dated 10th December 2019.
Our response is as follows:
- The names and locations of the off-street car parks and on-street car
parking bays.
Off-street Car Parks
The names and locations of our off-street public car parks are already in
the public domain by following the link below and clicking on the relevant
car park link.
[1]https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/direct...
On-Street Car Parking Bays
The Council will be exempting your request under Section 12 – Cost of
Compliance.
Section 12(1) does not oblige a local authority to comply with a request
for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with
the request would exceed the appropriate limit.
The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) Regulations 2004 (“the Fees Regulations) sets the appropriate limit
at £450 for the public authority in question. Under these Regulations, a
public authority can charge a maximum of £25 per hour for work undertaken
to comply with a request. This equates to 18 hours work.
A public authority is only required to provide a reasonable estimate or
breakdown of costs and in putting together its estimate it can take the
following processes into consideration:-
a. Determining whether it holds the information
b. Locating the information, or a document which may contain the
information;
c. Retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the
information, and
d. Extracting the information from a document containing it.
To gather all of the information requested from the many hundreds of
records and documents would take an officer well in excess of the 18hours
and £450 limit. A very conservative estimate would be
1,000+ documents x 3minutes per document = 50 hours x £25 per hour =
£1,250.
Section 16 places a duty on public authorities to provide advice and
assistance, so far as it would be reasonable to expect the authority to do
so, to persons who propose to make, or have made requests for information
to it, you may wish to refine your request.
For your information, within the next year the Council are hoping to have
online maps on our website for everything parking related.
- The total number of car parking spaces available at each of the
off-street car parks and on-street parking locations. Please specify how
many of these are designated disabled/blue badge parking bays.
The number of spaces in our off-street public car parks is already in the
public domain by following the link below and clicking on the relevant car
park link.
[2]https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/direct...
Total number of on-street parking bays are 6,011 which equates to 20,096
individual spaces. There are 652 disabled parking bays in the Borough,
none are designated.
- The tariffs available at each of the off-street car parks and on-street
parking locations. Please state whether season tickets for each of the
off-street car parks and on-street parking locations can be bought and the
associated costs (weekly, monthly, annually).
The Pay and Display tariffs for our off-street public car parks is already
in the public domain by following the link below and clicking on the
relevant car park link.
[3]https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/direct...
Information on car park season tickets is already in the public domain
here;
[4]https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/info/2...
A list of zones and available permits, plus the associated costs, is
already in the public domain here;
[5]https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/downlo...
- Please state whether security CCTV is in place at each of the off-street
car parks and on-street parking locations (as opposed to ANPR/automatic
number-plate recognition CCTV used for issuing tickets)
The Council has no security CCTV systems operating in our car parks, nor
is the Council’s CCTV network used to provide vehicle security on-street.
- The amount of revenue generated from each of these council-owned parking
locations in the last financial year excluding fines/PCNs.
Please see attached spreadsheet.
- The number of PCNs/fines issued at each of the off-street car parks and
on-street parking locations in the last financial year.
For the 2018-2019 financial year; 39,710 PCNs were issued on-street and
2,690 off street, totalling 42,400. See attachment FOI-33639.xlsx for PCNs
issued by location.
- The amount of revenue generated from fines/PCNs at each of the
off-street car parks and on-street parking locations in the last financial
year.
Please see attached spreadsheet.
- The number of fines/PCNs issued in the borough which were unpaid and
referred to the Traffic Enforcement Centre in the last financial year.
9,226
If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact me,
quoting the reference number above.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your request, you can ask
for an Internal Review. Internal review requests should be submitted
within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original
request. If you wish to do this, please contact us, setting out why you
are dissatisfied.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision.
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
Internal Review procedure provided by the Council. You can contact the ICO
by emailing [6][email address], or by post at Customer Contact,
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
020 8921 5044
3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
[7]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
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From: Karen Wise On Behalf Of foi
Sent: 11 December 2019 09:09
To: 'Ellen Blacow' <[FOI #615775 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: FOI-33639: Freedom of Information request - Council-Owned Car
Parking Spaces
Dear Ms Blacow
Freedom of Information request: FOI-33639
Thank you for your clarification dated 10/12/2019.
Your request has been reopened and will now be answered by 10/01/2020.
If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact us
quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich
' 020 8921 5044
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
8 [8]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
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