High carbon infrastructure planning
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Vale of White Horse District Council as part of a batch sent to 181 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Vale of White Horse District 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 which ones were accepted.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
Dear Hannah Jewell
Thank you for your Environmental Information Regulation request, which was
received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 16 January 2023.
Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been
received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a
response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the
information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.
The deadline for this will be 13 February 2023
The reference number for this request is Vale 22/1133
I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is
being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime,
please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at
[1][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
Kind regards
Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Vale of White Horse District Council
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[3]Vale of White Horse District Council
Dear Hannah,
Thank you for your requests for information under the Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), which were received by both South
Oxfordshire District Council (logged under 22/1237 SOUTH) and Vale of
White Horse District Council (logged under 22/1133 VALE). Please note
that the two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint
response.
Under Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations
2004, you are entitled to information which is in the authority’s
possession or is held by another person on behalf of the authority unless
any exceptions apply (Part 3 Regulation 12). I have considered your
request and can confirm we do hold some of the information asked and I do
not believe any of the statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please
find below the information you requested (where available):
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.
No, South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council have not approved any new or expanded roads or road junctions
between 1st January 2019 and 1st January 2023. As district councils we are
not responsible for the approval of new or expanded roads. This comes
under the remit of the county council. Therefore, please submit this
question to Oxfordshire County Council.
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.
No, South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council have not approved any new or expanded airport runways, terminals,
measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning proposals that
expand airport capacity between 1st January 2019 and 1st January 2023.
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response. If you are not
satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your request, under
Regulation 11, you may make a request for an internal review within 40
working days of receiving this response by emailing
[1][email address] and [2][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]. If you remain
dissatisfied after following that procedure, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner. You can contact the Commissioner
at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone
number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information at
[3]www.ico.org.uk.
Best wishes,
Jessie
Jessie Fieth
Senior Climate Action Officer
Policy and Programmes
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
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