FOI request detail

Penalties issued for breaching loading bay rules

Request ID: FOI-2522-2223
Date published: 19 January 2023

You asked

Follow-up to FOI-2237-2223: Thank you for your explanation, which helps me to make sense of TfL’s position. If I scale back my request as follows, can TfL please address this? Please advise how many penalties were issued to users of TfL loading bays for: Q1 breaching the rule that visits must not exceed 20 minutes: a) on bays in Kensington & Chelsea b) on bays anywhere in London Q2 breaching any loading bay rule on bays in Kensington & Chelsea. Please provide this data by year, for 2019 & 2022. I look forward to your reply.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-2522-2223

Thank you for your further request of 5th January 2023 asking for information about penalties issued for breaching loading bay rules.

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 advise how many penalties were issued to users of TfL loading bays for:

Q1 breaching the rule that visits must not exceed 20 minutes:
a) on bays in Kensington & Chelsea
b) on bays anywhere in London

Q2 breaching any loading bay rule on bays in Kensington & Chelsea.

Please provide this data by year, for 2019 & 2022.”

I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require.

In answer to questions 1a and 1b, TfL does not hold this information. We do not record whether a vehicle was stopped in a loading bay in excess of 20 minutes. Rather, our records simply state whether a vehicle was “stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)”, not how long the vehicle was there for. We therefore do not hold the information to answer these questions.

In answer to question 2, while we do hold this information in theory, in practice it is not possible to source it within the £450 costs limit for responding to FOI cases, as set out under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act (the provisions of which were explained in more detail in our response of 4th January 2023 to case ref: FOI-2237-2223, shown further below). However, I can tell you that in 2019 and 2022 there were 1,497,617 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued by TfL across the whole of London for vehicles ‘Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)’. There is no automatic way of breaking this data down by individual borough. In order to do that we would have to review each individual PCN to see the location to which they related. Given the numbers involved this is not possible within the costs limit.

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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