FOI request detail

Box junction at Palmer Pl/ Holloway Road/ Drayton Park

Request ID: FOI-1470-2223
Date published: 04 October 2022

You asked

Dear TFL team I was issued above PCN xxxx on 30th June 2022 that I am appealing. My appeal was turned down by TFL so I have now gone to Appeals Tribunal and my hearing is on 8th October. I order to support my appeal I require following information: The box junction for which I need information is junction of Palmer Pl/ Holloway Road/ Drayton Park located in London, Islington as per map below. Please can you supply me with following information for contravention of cars entering the box junction FROM Palmer Pl , turning LEFT onto Holloway road: 1. How many fines have been issued between 1st January 2022 to 30th June 2022 2. How many of these fines were paid within 28days 3. How many fines were appealed against 4. How many appeals were successful with TFL 5. How many fines were progressed to Appeals Tribunal 6. How many appeals at Appeals Tribunal were successful. I would be very grateful if this information can be provided before my hearing on 8th October.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-1470-2223

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 17th September 2022 asking for information about the box junction at Palmer Pl/ Holloway Road/ Drayton Park.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

Please can you supply me with following information for contravention of cars entering the box junction FROM Palmer Pl , turning LEFT onto Holloway road:

How many fines have been issued between 1st January 2022 to 30th June 2022
How many of these fines were paid within 28days
How many fines were appealed against
How many appeals were successful with TFL
How many fines were progressed to Appeals Tribunal
How many appeals at Appeals Tribunal were successful.”

I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. However, I am afraid that it is not possible to source the information to answer your questions within the costs limit for responding to cases, as set out under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act. Under section 12, TfL is not obliged to provide information if it would cost more than £450 to determine if the information is held, and to then locate, retrieve or extract it from elsewhere. This is calculated at a rate of £25 per hour, equivalent to 18 hours work.

In this instance the exemption applies because the information has not been collated before, and there is no quick or efficient way of doing so. In order to capture this data we would have to manually look at the CCTV footage associated with each Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) at this box junction to determine those that were issued where the precise manoeuvre described (i.e. a left turn onto Holloway Road) took place (we cannot report on that from our PCN records alone as we issue PCNs for vehicles blocking a box junction, which does not detail where they entered or left it). We estimate it would take around 15 minutes to review the footage for each PCN, and with 250 PCNs issued at this location in the timeframe specified it would therefore take an estimated 62.5 hours to review all cases.

In order to bring your request within the costs limit you may wish to narrow its scope - for example, by asking for less specific data.

Note that TfL does not hold data on appeals to the Tribunal - this would be held by the London Tribunals.

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,

David Wells
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

 

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