High carbon infrastructure planning

The request was successful.

Climate Emergency UK

Dear West Sussex 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

westsussex@infreemation.co.uk, West Sussex County Council

Dear Climate Emergency UK

Thank you for your request which has been assigned reference FOI/4711

Freedom of Information request - High carbon infrastructure planning

If you have submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), we aim to
respond within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, i.e. by or on
13/02/2023. 

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this request, please
reply to this email leaving the subject line unchanged.

Yours sincerely,
West Sussex County Council

 

Did you make your request via our online form at
[1]https://foi.infreemation.co.uk/westsusse... not, why not use it
in future for a simple and convenient way to make FOI requests.

References

Visible links
1. https://foi.infreemation.co.uk/westsusse...

westsussex@infreemation.co.uk, West Sussex County Council

Dear Climate Emergency UK,

Our Ref: FOI/4711

On 16/01/2023 you made the following request for information, which has
been dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004

EIR Re: High carbon infrastructure planning

We have now completed a search for the information which you requested and
confirm that this Authority holds data relevant to your request.

The Response to your request is as follows:

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.

(a)  The County Council has granted planning permission for two
new roads in its area between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2023:

• WSCC/049/18/LY - Creation of a 1.1km highway, with shared cycleway and
footway, Pegasus crossing, viaduct, culvert, wetland areas, balancing
pond and swales, street lighting and associated works on Land East of
Lyminster village & between Toddington Nurseries & A284 Lyminster
Road, Lyminster, Littlehampton.
• WSCC/052/20 - Construction of a single carriageway with shared
cycleway/footway, roundabouts, road markings, traffic signals, bus
stops, provision of hard and soft landscaping, construction of a
substation building, installation of a noise barrier, and other
associated works on land to the north of Eastergate and north-west of
Barnham, PO22 0DF.

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. 

The County Council has not granted planning permission for any new or
expanded airport runways, terminals, measures to increase passenger
numbers or other planning proposals that expand airport capacity in its
area between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2023.

 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. Most
documents supplied by us will be copyright of West Sussex County Council.

Information you receive which is not subject to WSCC continues to be
protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the
information originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission
before reproducing any third party (non WSCC) information.

If you have any queries about any of this information please contact me
 by responding to this email. Please do not amend the Subject line.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you may
wish to ask for a review of our decision  by responding to this email.
Please do not amend the Subject line.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally,
the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our internal
review procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

[1]www.ico.org.uk; or

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

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

Annemarie, CI Group FOI, Highways and Transport.

 

 

 

References

Visible links
1. http://www.ico.org.uk/