FOI request detail

Car Park Utilisation ant Cockfosters Underground Station

Request ID: FOI-2516-2223
Date published: 03 February 2023

You asked

Please provide daily utilisation figures for this car park (numerical numbers of vehicles parking) for the course of calendar year 2022. Pls confirm receipt of this enquiry.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-2516-2223
 
Thank you for your request which we received on 9 January 2023, asking for daily utilisation figures for Cockfosters Station car park.
 
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 we do hold the information you require.
 
Unfortunately, to provide the specific information you have requested at this time 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 a request 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. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.
 
The car park operator changed from NCP to Saba UK in January this year. The cost limit applies because some systems have become unavailable due to a licence expiry and we are unable to run reports on them anymore. In order to retrieve the utilisation figures for 2022, we would have to manually review and extract thousands of rows of data for the purposes of your request, which would considerably exceed the cost limit.
 
However, we do hold ticketing data from the current year, covering period from 1 April 2022 up until 9 January 2023, after which NCP no longer managed the estate. Please see the below table for information relating to ticketing. It is important to note that this data is derived specifically from the number of individual parking tickets sold and so does not correlate directly with the number of bays that are occupied at any given time. By their very nature, with vehicle owners coming and going, individual car parking bays can be used by different vehicles multiple times across any given day and so it will often be the case that multiple tickets in a single day relate to the exact same bay, rather than multiple vehicles using multiple bays simultaneously. For this reason, no conclusions should be drawn from this data regarding occupancy or proportional utilisation of bays. However we trust this information will be of value and interest to you.
 
 
Car Park
DailyWeeklyMonthlyQuarterlyAnnualTotal Tickets
Cockfosters107,0352,606306  109,947
 
This published response from 2021 provides daily utilisation figures for Cockfosters cark park in 2019 that you might find useful.
 
To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. We expect that data will be available from the new provider Saba UK, once they have managed the estate for a longer period of time.
Please note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.
 
In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, please do not hesitate to contact me.
 
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
 
Yours sincerely

Eva Hextall
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

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