Road Safety Audits of the Barton Park / A40 Northway Crossing

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Dear Oxfordshire County Council,

I would like to obtain the Road Safety Audits which have been carried out on the Barton Park / A40 Northway junction, where Barton Fields Road crosses the A40 North Way Northern Bypass Road to Foxwell Drive and Meaden Hill.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Barnett

FOI - E&E, Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference: 19483 EIR

                                                            

Dear Mr Barnett,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 14 February 2022 in which
you asked for the following information:

 

 

I would like to obtain the Road Safety Audits which have been carried out
on the Barton Park / A40 Northway junction, where Barton Fields Road
crosses the A40 North Way Northern Bypass Road to Foxwell Drive and Meaden
Hill.

 

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested as soon as possible and in any event within the next 20 working
days in compliance with the Environmental Information Regulations
2004/Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless an exception applies. This
means that the council will respond to you by the end of 14 March 2022 at
the latest.

 

If appropriate, the information requested can be made available in
alternative formats, including other languages, Braille, large print, and
audiocassette. If you require any of these formats then please let me
know.

 

Please contact me if you have any have further enquiries about your
request. I would be grateful if you could quote the reference number given
at the top of this email.

 

Kind regards

Renata Malinowski

 

Freedom of Information Support Officer

Law and Governance

Oxfordshire County Council

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FOI - E&E, Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference:  19483 EIR

 

 

Dear Mr Barnett

 

Thank you for your request of 14^th February 2022 in which you asked for
the following information:

 

I would like to obtain the Road Safety Audits which have been carried out
on the Barton Park / A40 Northway junction, where Barton Fields Road
crosses the A40 North Way Northern Bypass Road to Foxwell Drive and Meaden
Hill.

 

Oxfordshire County Council was only able to locate copies of two Road
Safety Audit reports in our files relevant to your request which are
attached to this response.

 

The first Stage 3 Road Safety Audit was carried out on 15th September
2016, the report of which is referenced as ‘Barton Park, Oxford Pre 3 RSA
REDACTED.pdf’. This was carried out when the junction was first open for
use. As stated in the report there were still works taking place, so this
was considered to be an interim audit.

 

The second Stage 3 Road Safety Audit took place on 28th July 2020, the
report of which is referenced as ‘Barton Park Oxford – RSA3 Report
REDACTED’. This audit was carried out when the works were fully completed
and the junction operational in its final configuration.

 

The following information has however, been redacted from the reports:

 

1.         Signatures and

2.         The faces of staff and other third parties in the photographs.

 

The Council considers that this information is exempt from disclosure
under regulation 13 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. 
Regulation 13 provides that information shall not be disclosed where it
constitutes the personal data of someone other than the applicant and that
disclosure would satisfy one of the following three conditions:

 

1.         disclosure would contravene any of the data protection
principles, or would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data
Protection Act 2018 (manual unstructured data held by public authorities)
were disregarded or,

2.         disclosure would contravene Article 21 of the GDPR (general
processing: right to object to processing), or section 99 of the Data
Protection Act 2018 (intelligence services processing: right to object to
processing).

3.         on a request under Article 15(1) of the GDPR (general
processing: right of access by the data subject) for access to personal
data, the information would be withheld in reliance on provision made by
or under section 15, 16 or 26 of, or Schedule 2, 3 or 4 to, the Data
Protection Act 2018, on a request under section 45(1)(b) of that Act (law
enforcement processing: right of access by the data subject), the
information would be withheld in reliance on subsection (4) of that
section, or on a request under section 94(1)(b) of that Act (intelligence
services processing: rights of access by the data subject), the
information would be withheld in reliance on a provision of Chapter 6 of
Part 4 of that Act.

 

In this case, the relevant condition is the first condition. 
Specifically, the council considers that the first data protection
principle would be breached; namely, that disclosure of the redacted
information would not be fair for the following reasons:

 

1.         The reasonable expectations of the data subjects and the nature
of the information itself leads the Council to conclude that the data
subjects could not reasonably expect that this information would be
disclosed;

2.         Neither this, nor similar information has been released into
the public domain by the data subjects or anyone else; and

3.         That the legitimate interests in the public having access to
this information do not outweigh the interests in preserving the rights
and freedoms of the data subjects.

 

In reaching this decision, the Council noted that the following
consequences may occur if this information was disclosed:

 

 1. The data subject would not expect this information to be released.

 

In light of the above, the Council considers it justified to uphold this
exemption by applying redactions to the disclosure.

 

I would like to provide you with some additional contextual information to
supplement the audit report which I hope will assist with your
understanding.

 

Whilst the audit report is a completed document, some recommendations have
yet to be completed. Additionally, there are likely to be some
recommendations that will not be carried out by the developers.

 

 

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Please let me know if you have further enquiries. I would be grateful if
you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Mike Smith

Road Agreements Team Leader – Cherwell & West

Road Agreements,

Environment & Place,

Oxfordshire County Council

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