FoI Request, Willesden Junction Station Feasibility Study This request relates to a feasibility study "commissioned by TfL, the OPDC and the LB of Brent" in May 2016, into "Willesden Junction Station and Interchange to GRIP2". (That expression is the name of a Network Rail investment stage.) To inform your research, here is a version of a produced report (there may be other versions): https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/51._willesden_junction_station_feasibility_study_1.pdf ========== Under the FoI Act 2000, and with reference to the above study, please supply the following material, dated from 1 January 2016 to date: - all discussion of, and a copy of, the overall planning brief, including the specification of what was needed to be delivered by consultants - all discussion regarding various possible analysis methodologies, including the one that was chosen, called 'Elemental Option Sifting' (EOS) but not limited to that one - all discussion of costs of the study and how they would be / have been divided. - all data held by you that reasonably proved relevant to the study, but has not appeared in published reports. The above should be interpreted as including minutes of all project scoping and management meetings, plus reports submitted to such meetings.

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TfL Ref: FOI-0730-1718

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 22 June 2017 asking for information about Willesden Junction.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require. You asked for:

- all discussion of, and a copy of, the overall planning brief, including the specification of what was needed to be delivered by consultants

We have provided a copy of the brief issued to consultants and the technical response from the winning bidder (Atkins). Some emails in which the content of the brief were discussed are also included. Other comments on the brief were provided verbally at meetings but have not been recorded.

Please note that in accordance with TfL’s obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) some personal data has been removed, as required by Regulation 13 of the EIRs. This is because disclosure of this personal data would be a breach of the DPA, specifically the first principle of the DPA which requires all processing of personal data to be fair and lawful. It would not be fair to disclose this personal information when the individuals have no expectation it would be disclosed and TfL has not satisfied one of the conditions of Schedule 2 of the Data Protection Act which would make the processing ‘fair’.

- all discussion regarding various possible analysis methodologies, including the one that was chosen, called 'Elemental Option Sifting' (EOS) but not limited to that one

Bidders for the study each proposed their own analysis methodology. The methodology proposed will have affected the scoring of the bid during the procurement process. The high technical scores for the winning bid by the study team led by Atkins will have reflected the joint client team’s (TfL, OPDC and LB Brent) views of the EOS process. We have included files which provide more details on the EOS process than were included in the final report, including details of the wide range of organisations involved in the scoring.

- all discussion of costs of the study and how they would be / have been divided.

The study was jointly funded by TfL, the OPDC and LB Brent. We have included all relevant emails where the costs of the study and the split in funding between the three client partners were discussed.

- all data held by you that reasonably proved relevant to the study, but has not appeared in published reports.

We have included a wide range of data and material that will have informed the study but was not included in the final report. This includes technical notes prepared by the study team which contain more detail than the final report, presentations made to other organisations, comments made on the draft reports by all those consulted and a fuller version of the final report than that issued as part of the OPDC’s Local Plan consultation which contains additional data.

The above should be interpreted as including minutes of all project scoping and management meetings, plus reports submitted to such meetings.

Formal minutes of the project scoping and management meetings were not taken, but reports/presentations/data submitted to the meetings has been included.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Lee Hill

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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