High carbon infrastructure planning

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Dear Kent County Council,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.

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 the accepted planning proposals.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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Our reference: 34551541

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Dear Ms Jewell
   
Thank you for your email which we received on 17 January 2023. Please be
advised that you submitted two identical requests, one of which had an
additional question regarding fossil fuels and the other had an additional
question regarding airport runways. Therefore, we have merged the two
requests and you will receive one response from us which covers all three
questions.
 
Kent County Council (KCC) acknowledges your request for information, which
we will consider under the relevant legislation (Freedom of Information
Act 2000 and/or Environmental Information Regulations 2004).
 
Assuming KCC holds this information, we will endeavour to supply the data
to you as soon as possible but no later than 14 February 2023 (20 working
days from date of receipt).
 
We will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
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Our reference: 34551541

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Dear Ms Jewell
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 17 January 2023.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 Mollie Thorne 
 Information Access Officer 
 
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