Data showing success of Community Road watch

Request for Information - 2019/0696 - Community Road watch

Thank you for your request for information received on 13/02/2019.

This will be processed in accordance with the appropriate access to
information regime.

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Our Reference: 18 March 2019

Freedom of Information requests concerning cycling and road safety

Dear Mr Irwin

I refer to your requests for information from Wandsworth Council and the
fact that you have submitted numerous information requests within a
relatively short period. Due to the burden these requests have placed on
the Council, we have reviewed the frequency and nature of your information
requests in accordance with guidance from the Information Commissioner’s
Office and the Freedom of Information Act, and other relevant legislation
as noted below.

This is a list of the information requests you have submitted from
mid-November 2018 to mid-February 2019:

Cycling and Road Safety FOIs from mid-November 2018 to mid-February 2019

[1]Confirmation of which position is true re: traffic management policy

Response by [2]Wandsworth Borough Council to [3]Jon Irwin on 14 February
2019.

Officer time spent = 1 hour

[4]Data showing success of Community Road watch

Response by [5]Wandsworth Borough Council to [6]Jon Irwin on 13 February
2019.

Officer time spent = 3 hours

[7]Policy referring to classified roads managed by the council

Response by [8]Wandsworth Borough Council to [9]Jon Irwin on 12 February
2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[10]Supplementary query re: Bedford Hill

Response by [11]Wandsworth Borough Council to [12]Jon Irwin on 6 February
2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[13]Clarification re: Liveable Neighbourhoods

Response by [14]Wandsworth Borough Council to [15]Jon Irwin on 6 February
2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[16]Road safety policy query

Response by [17]Wandsworth Borough Council to [18]Jon Irwin on 31 January
2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[19]Update re: petition for Mitcham Lane

Follow up sent to [20]Wandsworth Borough Council by [21]Jon Irwin on 25
January 2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[22]Liveable Neighbourhoods in Wandsworth

Response by [23]Wandsworth Borough Council to [24]Jon Irwin on 24 January
2019.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[25]Bedford Hill - Follow up request

Response by [26]Wandsworth Borough Council to [27]Jon Irwin on 14 December
2018.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[28]Use of Experimental Traffic Order for Franche Court Road

Internal review request sent to [29]Wandsworth Borough Council by [30]Jon
Irwin on 4 December 2018.

Officer time spent = 2 hours

[31]Council report following Coroners investigation into Lucia Ciccioli's
death

Internal review request sent to [32]Wandsworth Borough Council by [33]Jon
Irwin on 13 November 2018.

Officer time spent = 3 hours

A total of 23 hours officer time has been spent on responding to the above
information requests.

In addition, the Council estimates it would take a further five hours to
respond to the two recent requests noted below.

(1) 2019/0849 Bike hangers. Received on 12 March 2019 (would take an
estimated two hours).

(2) 2019/0696 Community road watch. Received on 13 February 2019 (would
take an estimated three hours).

The 23 hours already spent over the 60-day period noted above and the
further five hours that would be needed on the requests at (1) and (2)
above means that your requests relating to cycling and road safety have
been placing an unreasonable burden on the Council.

We consider that the Council has tried to provide advice and assistance to
you on numerous occasions to explain the issues raised and to respond to
your questions as fully as it can. However, to continue to do this would
be unsustainable, place an unreasonable burden on the Council, and detract
from the service the Council can provide to its residents more widely.

Therefore, the Council’s decision is that the cost limit exemption applies
under section 12 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act. This means the
Council will not respond to your two most recent requests and will not
respond to any further information requests relating to cycling or road
safety, for a period of two months from today (i.e. from 18 March 2019 to
17 May 2019).

However, should you then make an unreasonable level of information
requests after 17 May 2019, the Council will consider applying further
exemptions that may restrict your right to submit any further information
requests, including on issues in addition to cycling and road safety.

Therefore, having carefully reviewed your requests for information, I
consider the requests to have exceeded the 18-hour (£450) cost limit under
S12 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act. Additionally, under the Freedom
of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees)
Regulations 2004, the Council can consider together requests that relate
to similar issues. As noted above, the requests you have submitted
relating to cycling and road safety have significantly exceeded the
statutory cost limit over the period shown.

You have the right to appeal our decision if you think it is incorrect. If
you wish to request a review of this decision, please do so in writing to
the following address:

Room 162, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PU

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

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

Yours sincerely

Liam Cooper
FOI & DPA Officer
Serving Richmond and Wandsworth Council

020 8871 8800
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