FOI request detail

Camera on Gower Street (next to Grafton Way)

Request ID: FOI-0700-1718
Date published: 13 July 2017

You asked
I would like to know if the camera located on Gower Street (next to Grafton Way) monitors the cars coming only from the north in terms of recording congestion charge payment? If so, what is the purpose of a single camera facing the south direction? Moreover, I would like to know how many penalty charge notices were issued at this location in 2016 and how many remain unpaid.

We answered

Our ref: FOI-0700-1718/GH

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18 June 2017 asking for information about Gower Street.

 

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.

 

I would like to know if the camera located on Gower Street (next to Grafton Way) monitors the cars coming only from the north in terms of recording congestion charge payment? If so, what is the purpose of a single camera facing the south direction?

 

The Congestion Charge camera on Gower Street is located close to University Street and is facing north to capture all traffic on this one way street. The other camera near this location is a CCTV camera used to monitor traffic flows and is not used by Congestion Charging.

 

Moreover, I would like to know how many penalty charge notices were issued at this location in 2016 and how many remain unpaid.

 

We enforce the Congestion Charging zone using a network of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras that capture images of vehicles as they enter, leave or drive within the zone, however we do not track a vehicle’s journey through the zone. We only retain images of vehicles that have not paid the charge (for the purposes of issuing a Penalty Charge Notice) and, while a vehicle may be captured multiple times on its journey through the zone, we only retain the images from one camera site.

 

We issued 13,231 Penalty Charge Notices using images captured by this camera site in 2016.  Of these, 3,870 remain unpaid.  It should be noted however that this can be for reasons such as cases being investigated following customers making representations.

 

If this is not the information you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

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

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