Roads compensation 1990-2015 inclusive

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Dear Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please kindly provide us with details of compensation payments for damage caused
due to poor condition of roads (potholes, etc) by year from 1990 to 2015 inclusive.

1. Total claims for compensation your council received for year.
2. Total claims your council paid out compensation for year.
3. Highest single amount paid out in compensation for year.
4. Lowest single amount paid out in compensation for year.
5. Average amount paid out in compensation for year.
6. Total compensation paid out for year.

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Yours faithfully,

Lee Jefferson

Information Manager, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Sir

I acknowledge with thanks your request for information; this request has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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Yours faithfully,

Information Management Team
Corporate & Commercial Services
Oldham Council
Level 11
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham OL1 1UT

E mail: [email address]

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Risk and Insurance Team, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Good morning,

 

Thank you for your email of 18/05/2018 where you requested information
about Roads compensation 1990-2015 inclusive

 

In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have
requested would require us to individually interrogate each claim logged
from 1990-2015 to calculate payments for compensation alone, as our system
does not allow us to run a report with a breakdown of the financial
information. 

 

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requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed
the appropriate limit, which for Local Government is set at £450. This
represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours at £25 per
hour in determining whether the Council holds the information i.e. in
locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

 

We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to determine the
appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in
reference to your request. Therefore, your request will not be processed
further.

 

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If you disagree with the exemption applied to the above information, you
may appeal to:

Paul Entwistle

Borough Solicitor

Legal & Democratic Services

Oldham MBC

Civic Centre, West St, Oldham OL1 1UG

Tel:  0161 770 4822

E-mail:  [email address]

 

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Level 14

Oldham Council

Civic Centre

West Street

Oldham

OL1 1UT

 

*Please note: For satellite navigation purposes the postcode is OL1 1NL

Visiting the Civic Centre by Metrolink? The nearest stop is Oldham King
Street (2-3 mins walk)

 

 

 

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Dear Risk and Insurance Team,

Thanks for your response. Please find our revised request below.

Please dispand with all numbered instructions and instead provide the total compensation paid (for damage caused to property or person) due to poor condition of roads (potholes, etc) for the years you are able to do so starting with 2015 and work backwards until either the data is no longer reasonably accessible or until you reach the beginning of 1990 (whichever happens sooner).

It is our preference for these figures to include any additional costs (such as legal fees). If this is not possible then please kindly provide the data anyway and state what is included.

In terms of which year to put the compensation figures we shall provide an example. If the damage occurred in the year 1998 we would prefer the amount paid to appear in the 1998 column and so on. If you cannot arrange the data in this way then please kindly base it on the year the claim was made. For instance if the claim was made in the year 1999 then kindly arrange for the amount paid to appear in 1999. If however you are again unable to arrange the data in this way then kindly provide it in any available way stating how it is arranged.

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Yours sincerely,

Lee Jefferson

Alan Evans, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Jefferson

 

I write with reference to your request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act which was submitted by email on 18 May and subsequently
revised on 29 May.

 

The information we are able to provide is in response to the following
amended requests:

 

1. Total claims for compensation your Council received due to poor
condition of roads (potholes, etc) for the financial years 2001/02 –
2015/16.

2. Total claims your council paid out in compensation due to poor
condition of roads (potholes, etc) for the financial years 2001/02 –
2015/16.

3. Total compensation paid out due to poor condition of roads (potholes,
etc) for the financial years 2001/02 – 2015/16.

 

I attach a spreadsheet providing the information requested.  Please note
that the compensation figures also include any legal fees paid in relation
to the claims

 

For the financial years 2001/02 to 2008/09 the information provided does
not include compensation claims or payments arising from vehicle damage
claims only (ie claims not involving any personal injury element).  For
the financial years 2009/10 onwards the information does include these
types of claims.

 

Yours sincerely 

 

Alan Evans

Group Solicitor (Environment)

Oldham MBC

Civic Centre

West Street

Oldham

OL1 1UL

 

Tel: (0161) 770 3019

Fax: (0161) 770 3701

 

[email address]

 

*Please note: For satellite navigation purposes the postcode is OL1 1NL

 

Visiting the Civic Centre by Metrolink? The nearest stop is Oldham King
Street (2-3 mins walk)

 

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Dear Alan Evans,

Thanks for providing this information.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Jefferson