Request ID: FOI-1138-2425 Date published: 31 July 2024
You asked
I am writing with a request for the following information :
1. Please provide the number of offences where a fixed penalty notice has been issued for Contravention Code 131 - stopping on box junction at junction of Streatham High Road/ Stanthorpe Rd/Gleneagle Road for the periods:
- Jan 2022-end Dec 2022
- Jan 2023 - end Dec 2023
- Jan 2024 - end June 2024
2. Please provide the record of the servicing for the camera reviewing the junction as identified in 1 above since Jan 2022.
This information should be readily available .
Many thanks
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1138-2425
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on9 July 2024 asking for information about Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) at the yellow box junction of Streatham High Road/ Stanthorpe Road/Gleneagle Road.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require.
Specifically you asked:
1. Please provide the number of offences where a fixed penalty notice has been issued for Contravention Code 131 - stopping on box junction at junction of Streatham High Road/ Stanthorpe Rd/Gleneagle Road for the periods: - Jan 2022- end Dec 2022 - Jan 2023 - end Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 - end June 2024
I can confirm we hold the information you require. However, in accordance with the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply information regarding the number of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued as they are subject to a statutory exemption to the right of access to information under section 31 of the FOI Act, which relates to law enforcement. Specifically, we are refusing your request under section 31(1)(b), which relates to information whose disclosure would be likely to prejudice the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, and section 31(1)(g), which relates to information whose disclosure would be likely to prejudice the exercise by any public authority of its functions or any of the purpose of ascertaining whether any person has failed to comply with the law.
Disclosure under the FOI Act is considered to be a disclosure ‘to the world at large’ rather than the individual applicant. Whilst we make no suggestion that you would use the information for anything other than your own personal interest, in this instance the exemption has been applied as information regarding enforcement on the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN) could be used by people wishing to build knowledge of TfL’s enforcement activities to avoid PCNs.
The use of this exemption is subject to an assessment of the public interest in relation to the disclosure of the information concerned. We recognise the need for openness and transparency by public authorities, but in this instance feel that balance lies in favour of withholding the information to ensure that drivers in London use the roads in compliance with the relevant restrictions and that we are able to manage traffic on the road network. It would be strongly against the public interest to release any information that would undermine this.
2. Please provide the record of the servicing for the camera reviewing the junction as identified in 1 above since Jan 2022.
Please find attached the Periodic Inspection Log for the requested camera since January 2022.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please let me know.
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,
Mary Abidakun FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
