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Dear M Murphy 

RE: Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) at the Dollis Hill Avenue junction with
Edgware Road (using camera LW2522). 

Thank you for contacting the council on 16/05/2024.

Your case will be assigned to an officer and you should receive their
details soon.

Please use this reference number IRC-46410-F8L7H7 when contacting us about
this case.

Please note that we may require further information in order for us to
proceed, in which case we will contact you. 

If you would like further information on how your case will be dealt with,
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Dear M Murphy
 

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information that was received on
16/05/2024.

We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
and we aim to send a response by 14/06/2024.

In some cases, a fee may be payable. If we decide a fee is payable, we
will send you a fee notice and we will require you to pay the fee before
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to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

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requested for any other reason together with the reason(s) why and details
of how you may appeal (if appropriate).
 

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Alternatively, you may contact me using the contact details provided in
this correspondence.  

Yours sincerely 
Anthony Vartanian
Parking Policy Manager

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Dear M Murphy

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your information request received on 16/05/2024.
This request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

You requested the following information:

I would like to request the following information relating to the issuing
of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) at the 'Dollis Hill Avenue' junction with
'Edgware Road' (camera LW2522).
I am only interested in PCN's raised under Code 53 (Failing to comply with
a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone) at this location
that fall within the period from Mon 11th March 2024 to the date of
processing this enquiry. 
 
May I please obtain the following:
1. The total number of PCNs issued in relation to the above location
involving a Code 53 restriction during the period specified?
2. How many of those PCNs have been challenged, and can I please have a
breakdown of all the resons presented appealing them (such as incorrect,
or non-existent, signage)?
3. Camera LW2522 is not listed as being under Brent Council’s control
according to the webpage https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/gis-maps/cct... It
is situated on the Barnet Borough Council side of the Edgware Road
boundary. Please supply all documentation that is in place relating to the
management and maintenance of this CCTV facility from the stakeholders
involved.
4. When was the cautionary road signage warning of the restriction on the
north-going approach (travelling from Cricklewood Bus Garage) to the above
junction removed from its mounting post and placed on the pavement
rendering it unreadable to motorists approaching the junction?
Confirmation of when it was removed may be established from Brent
Council's own Works Department records, Brent Council's online 'Report It'
web portal, review of Brent Council's own CCTV footage or any other means
at your office’s disposal.
5. For the record, the sign still remains on the ground at the time of
writing this FOI request on 16th May 2024. Has an initiative to remount
the signage been made by any Brent Council division since 11th March 2024?

I can confirm that Brent Council holds the information you have
requested.

1. The total number of PCNs issued in relation to the above location
involving a Code 53 restriction during the date period specified is: 355

2. Total number PCNs have been challenged, and can I please have a
breakdown of all the reasons presented appealing them.

Total number of representations is 23 made under the Statutory process. A
representation allows a motorist the opportunity to present grounds on
which to provide information as to why the PCN was incorrectly or unfairly
issued. Each representation is a personal and individuals’ reasons. A
summary of some of the reasons given by motorists is: that they were new
residents who had moved into Dollis Hill Avenue and failed to register
their vehicle for an exemption; were providing care to a resident living
on the road; were delivering goods; failed to notice the restrictions,
sighting inadequate warning or signage. 

3. Camera LW2522 is a Brent installed and maintained enforcement camera.
Please see attached PDF of all Enforcement CCTV locations in Brent. Line
64 includes this camera. Local Authorities have boundary agreements in
place which are agreed between the respective Highways Management services
for the maintenance and responsibility of street furniture, lamp columns,
apparatus to name a few which are situated on the boundary line. This
section of road where the CCTV camera is installed is maintained by Brent
Council.   

4. When was the cautionary road signage warning of the restriction on the
north-going approach (travelling from Cricklewood Bus Garage) to the above
junction removed from its mounting post and placed on the pavement
rendering it unreadable to motorists approaching the junction? 

Brent Council have not removed the sign. Having checked our records, we
received a report that the Advance Warning Sign had fallen down in
November 2023 which was subsequently re mounted. 

Following your FOI request, point 5 that you raised as below, we checked
our records again and found no reports were made from other members of the
public that the sign had again fallen. We were therefore notified by you
that the sign had fallen and arranged a site visit on 28/05/2024. The site
visit confirmed that the sign had fallen down but as this was not reported
earlier, we do not know how long it had been on the ground, and an order
was raised to our contractor to remount the sign.

Please note the advanced warning signs are not mandatory, whilst they
comply with Department For Transport guidance, we do not need to have
them, only signs on the entry points are required.

5. For the record, the sign still remains on the ground at the time of
writing this FOI request on 16th May 2024. Has an initiative to remount
the signage been made by any Brent Council division since 11th March 2024?

Thank you for informing the Council that the sign had again fallen. As
detailed on our response to your question 4, we undertook a site visit and
have raised an order for the sign to be remounted. 

If you are dissatisfied with the way, in which your request has been
handled or the outcome, you may request an internal review within two
calendar months of the date of this response by writing to the following
address: 

Freedom of Information
Brent Civic Centre
Engineers Way
Wembley 
HA9 0FJ

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If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or internal
review, you have a right to appeal directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at:

The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Phone: 0303 123 1113
Website: [4]www.ico.org.uk 

I will now close your request as of the date of this letter.  

Yours sincerely 
Anthony Vartanian
Parking Policy Manager

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Dear M Murphy
 

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your follow up email requesting additional information
following our response.

I note that you requested details relating to the inter-council management
agreement and maintenance records of this CCTV facility from the
stakeholders involved.

I would very much appreciate it if you could clarify what information you
are seeking. 

The information provided in our earlier response advised that this is a
Brent CCTV installation. As such, the camera and accompanying signage has
been purchased and installed by Brent Council, the camera is also operated
and maintained by Brent Council on a section of the public highway that
Brent Council are responsible for. 

As additional information, I can advise that Brent Council have a CCTV
contract with Tyco who provide maintenance across all CCTV installations
in Brent.  

Please do let me know if there is any additional information that this, or
the earlier response has not addressed. 

 
Yours sincerely 
Anthony Vartanian
Parking Policy Manager

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Dear M Murphy

Further to your request for an Internal Review of the handling of your
initial request for information where some of the information was not
provided, please accept my apologies for the delay in our response.

The information that was not provided to you in our response was in
relation to question 3 you had raised as below: 
 

3. Camera LW2522 is not listed as being under Brent Council’s control
according to the webpage https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/gis-maps/cct... It
is situated on the Barnet Borough Council side of the Edgware Road
boundary. Please supply all documentation that is in place relating to the
management and maintenance of this CCTV facility from the stakeholders
involved.
 

The CCTV enforcement infrastructure is maintained by our contractor Tyco
Security Products and Solutions. We are still awaiting details of the
maintenance records for camera LW2522 to be provided to us by Tyco and
apologise this is taking longer than anticipated. Once we have receipt of
the records, I will forward these. 

With reference to your request for information in that you have stated
that camera LW2522 is not listed under Brent Council control and is
situated on the Barnet Council side, I can advise that the lamp column,
where camera LW2522 is installed, is a Brent Council asset. A new lamp
column to host the new camera was added to the location by Brent Council,
which as you have correctly indicated is on Barnet’s side but these are
maintained by Brent Council. I have requested our mapping team to include
this, our inventory, on the website once it was been plotted. As this is a
Brent Council asset, there are no documents or agreements with Barnet
Council in relation to the installation of the CCTV camera on Brent
maintained assets.

As soon as we have receipt of the maintenance records, I will provide a
full Internal Review response and thank you for your patience.   

Yours Sincerely 
Sandor Fazekas
Head of Healthy Streets and Parking

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