High carbon infrastructure and fossil fuel extraction planning

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Dear Ms Jewell,

I refer to your request dated 16th January 2023 under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), asking to supply the following
information:

I would like information about your council’s planning in relation to
climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information
is most likely to be held by a planning officer or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

a. Has the Council approved any new *1 or expanded *2 roads or road
junctions in its area from 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please
list which ones were accepted.

*1 The intention of this question is to understand overall increases in
road capacity, rather than recent housing developments. Please exclude
minor roads built exclusively to connect new housing to the pre-existing
road network.

*2 An expanded road or road junction is one that has increased capacity
for motor vehicle traffic, not counting bus lanes, cycle infrastructure,
or pedestrian infrastructure. Please include roads and junctions where new
lanes have been added.

b. Has the council approved any new or expanded airport runways,
terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning
proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st January 2019
until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.

c. Has the Council approved any planning applications for fossil fuel
extraction projects proposed in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st
January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted, including where
relevant fossil fuel projects that were later called in by central
government.

By fossil fuel extraction projects we mean: any oil wells and fields (on
or offshore), coal mines, fracking and shale gas, gas, natural (including
liquified) gas (on or off shore) plants, and unabated fossil fuel
generation and power plants well as related infrastructure such as
pipelines and terminals for the fossil fuels.

Requests for information are generally governed by the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).  The information you have requested is
environmental and it is therefore exempt from the provisions of the FOIA
s.39(1). We have therefore considered your request 8358 under the
provisions of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR).

The Council’s partial response is set out below:

a: The Council Executive had approved in principle a preferred option for
the Bradford Shipley Route Improvement Scheme in January 2020 that
included increased capacity for motor vehicle traffic however the scheme
is still in development and now looking at alternative solutions.

b & c: Your request for information has been considered by the City of
Bradford Metropolitan District Council under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.

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Freedom of Information Act as it is reasonably accessible in the public
domain and can be located via the following link:

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Council, City Hall, Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1HY.

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Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

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Regards

Siama Kausar

Information Governance Officer

Finance, IT & Procurement Service

Telephone Number: 01274 434506

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Dear Ms Jewell

I refer to your request dated 16th January 2023 and the Council's partial
response issued to you on the 13th February 2023.

Please see below the remainder of the Council's response to Question 1.

Requests for information are generally governed by the Freedom of
Information (FOI) Act 2000.  The information you have requested is
environmental and it is therefore exempt from the Act under the provisions
of Section 39(1). 

We have therefore considered your request asking to supply the following
information under the provisions of the Environmental Information
Regulations (EIR) 2004.

The Council’s response is set out below:

Question 1

The only omitted road junction improvements are:

· A6177 Outer Ring Road / Toller Road junction improvement

· A6177 Outer Ring Road / Gt Horton Road / Horton Grange Road

· A6177 Outer Ring Road / Thornton Road

· Croft Street gyratory (part of the Transforming Cities Fund programme)

· Manchester Road bus improvements (junction improvements along Manchester
Road between Jacobs Well roundabout and Odsal Top)

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Regards

Amanda Lyth

Senior Information Governance Officer

Finance, IT & Procurement Service

Telephone Number: 01274 434506

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Department of Corporate Resources

City Hall, Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1HY

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Dear Hannah Jewell,

I write further to the attached partial response to your recent Freedom of
Information request.

This response should be supplemented with the following additional
information;

1)    a: The following schemes are also currently being
implemented/planned within the district

·       A6177 Outer Ring Road / Toller Road junction improvement

·       A6177 Outer Ring Road / Gt Horton Road / Horton Grange Road

·       A6177 Outer Ring Road / Thornton Road

·       Croft Street gyratory (part of the Transforming Cities Fund
programme)

·       Manchester Road bus improvements (junction improvements along
Manchester Road between Jacobs Well roundabout and Odsal Top)

This concludes our response

Please accept our apologies for this omission from the original response –
this is due to a combination of staff leave and a communications error
across multiple teams.

Please refer to the original reply for your options should you not be
satisfied with this outcome.

Regards,

Darren Badrock IEng FIHE

Principal Engineer/Traffic Manager

Network Resilience and Management

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