Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

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Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Jamie Dixon

Request pursuant to Environmental Information Regulations Act 2004 –
Request No.19328

Thank you for your request for information about roadworks which we
received on 4^th August 2022. Your request has been considered under the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We want to be as open as possible in answering requests, and to help
people obtain the information they are looking for. Unfortunately, in this
case the amount of information you have requested is very substantial. 
Gathering it together would therefore be likely to involve a significant
cost and diversion of resources.  This could mean that we might have to
charge you for the work involved or even have to refuse the request under
exceptions in the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 covering
requests that are manifestly unreasonable or formulated too general a
manner.

The best way that we can help you therefore is to ask you to consider
whether you could narrow down your request to focus on the precise
information that you are seeking.  You could, for example:

• Be more specific about the time period covered by your request
• Explain more fully about the kind of information you are looking for
• Browse through material that has already been made publically
available on the authority’s website ([1]www.bedford.gov.uk) to see if
this would help you to identify more precise questions that we might
be able to answer at less cost.

Our work vary from filling a pothole to major resurfacing and improvement
schemes. To provide a cost breakdown for this work will take a lot of time
(over 30 hours) and may require payment. Therefore we ask if you can
confirm what specific information you are seeking?

If you are unable or unwilling to narrow down your request we will, of
course, consider it in accordance with our obligations under the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004.  However, we wanted to give
you an opportunity to reconsider your request and describe more precisely
the information you require.

Please let me know how you wish to proceed.

Yours sincerely,

Andrea Bechtle

FOI & EIR Officer

Bedford Borough Council

Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street

Bedford, MK42 9AP

Please reply to:  [2][email address]

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Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

Visible links
1. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
2. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
3. mailto:[email address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Jamie Dixon,

Request pursuant to Environmental Information Regulations Act 2004 –
Request No. 19328

Thank you for your request for information about roadworks, which we
received on 4^th August 2022. We are treating this as a request for
information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

Since a substantial amount of work will be involved in processing your
request, I am afraid that a fee is payable before we can provide you with
the information. The fee in this case is £750 - please see enclosed
schedule explaining how this was calculated. If the actual cost turns out
to be less than the estimate, the balance will be returned to you.

To enable us to proceed, please return a copy of this letter with a cheque
for £750 made payable to Bedford Borough Council to the address below. 
Alternatively, you may use the Council’s Pay For It online facility at
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

To do this:

·         Select Archives and Records > Environmental Information
Regulations

·         Insert your name, address and amount where requested

·         In the message box below add the reference number: EIR 19328

·         Payment Code 8201 27100 IN0766

Fee Schedule

┌──────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Details │  │Hourly rate │Total │
├──────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Time │30 hours │£25/hour │£750 │
├──────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Materials │  │Full cost recovery │  │
├──────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Total │  │  │£750 │
└──────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────┘

If we do not receive your payment by 60 working days from the date of this
letter, we will consider your request closed. Where possible we will
suggest alternative information that may be of interest to you, or ways to
refine your request that will reduce the fee.

The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond to your request from
the date of its receipt. This time limit is suspended until we receive
payment. As soon as we receive your payment we will begin work on
processing your request.

If you are unhappy with the way the authority has handled your request,
you may ask for an internal review. Please email:
[2][email address]  and we will arrange for an
internal review of your case. Under Regulation 11(2) this needs to be
done no later than 40 working days after the date of this letter.  If you
are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the
right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

[3]www.ico.gov.uk          

Yours sincerely

Andrea Bechtle

FOI & EIR Officer

Bedford Borough Council

Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street

Bedford, MK42 9AP

Please reply to:  [4][email address]

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