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From: [Name Removed] <[FOI #647229 email]>
Sent: 17 February 2020 15:48
To: FOI Mailbox <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Cycling and cycling
infrastructure expenditure
 
To Whom it May Concern,

1) Please provide information on how much has been spent on cycling
infrastructure in the area you're responsible for, broken down each year
for the last 5 available financial years.

Where cycling provision has been provided as part of wider improvement
works, these should be listed as cost for the cycling-related
improvements, not for the entire project.

2) Please also list the amount spent, sorted by Funding Type/Source (e.g.
Capital, Section 106, Central Government funding initiatives), broken down
each year for the last 5 available financial years.

3) Please detail how much has been spent, broken down by year, on
dedicated segregated cycling infrastructure (only dedicated cycle paths
featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT
included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing
re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or
greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation
of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

4) Please detail how many miles of segregated infrastructure has been
built in the last 5 years (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light,
full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road
painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared
usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation
of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

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Our Ref: 7577  

Dear Enquirer,

INFORMATION REQUEST

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Information Governance Office
Northumberland County Council
County Hall
Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 2EF

Tel: 0345 600 6400
Email: [Northumberland County Council request email]
Web: http://www.northumberland.gov.uk

Our Ref: 7577   

Dear Enquirer,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

I refer to your Freedom of Information request in relation to cycling
infrastructure. 

Right of Access

Section 1(1) of the Act provides any person making a request for
information to a public authority is entitled.

(a) to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it holds
information of the description specified in the request (which Section
1(6) of the Act designates as the "duty to confirm or deny"), and

(b) if that is the case, to have that information communicated to him.

The right is to obtain access to the information itself and not to the
document or record which contains it.

The Act creates a general right of access to information held by public
authorities subject to various exemptions.

Northumberland County Council confirms that it holds the information you
have requested, please see the (attached/following) information in
response.

Q1.

2019/20 - £426,899
2018/19 - £13,115
2017/18 - £856,092
2016/17 - £322,265
2015/16 - £87,476

Q2.

Local Transport Plan (LTP), Section 106 (S106), European Agricultural Fund
for Rural Development (EAFRD), North East Combined Authority (NECA)

2019/20 - LTP £130,478, S106 £151,743, EAFRD £144,708
2018/19 - LTP £6,688, S106 £6,427
2017/18 - LTP - £256,092, NECA £600,000
2016/17 - LTP £190,876, S106 £131,389
2015/16 - LTP £87,476

Q3.

2019/20 - £0
2018/19 - £0
2017/18 - Costs unknown for segregated infrastructure as it was one
element of a larger cycling scheme
2016/17 - £0
2015/16 - £0

Q4.

2019/20 - 0 miles
2018/19 - 0 miles
2017/18 - 0.162 miles
2016/17 - 0 miles
2015/16 - 0 miles
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Yours faithfully

FOI Coordinator -
Information Governance Office
Northumberland County Council
County Hall
Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 2EF

Tel: 0345 600 6400
Email: [Northumberland County Council request email]
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