Road Safety Issues with Regards to Latchmere Road,Heathwall Street, Theatre Street, Eland Road
Request ID: FOI-0424-2324 Date published: 25 May 2023
You asked
Please can you provide me with anything regarding road safety concerns or investigations relating to the following roads: Latchmere Road, Heathwall Street, Theatre Street, Eland Road (all of which are or have elements of red routes).
Please include collision reports, traffic calming proposals, user complaints, TFL road safety studies or proposals for general improvements.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-0424-2324/GH
Thank you for your request received on 11 May 2023 asking for information about Road Safety Issues on Latchmere Road,Heathwall Street, Theatre Street, and Eland Road.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy.
I can confirm that we do hold the information you require. However, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with requests if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
You have asked for ‘anything regarding road safety concerns or investigations’ over an unspecified time period, which include ‘collision reports, traffic calming proposals, user complaints, TFL road safety studies or proposals for general improvements’. Various areas of TfL would need to search their records to identify, locate and compile any information which may be relevant to your request, and this would take an excessive amount of time.
To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your requests to concentrate on matters which are important to you.
Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt
FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
