FOI release

Car Park Orders for Mill Street Car Park, Kington

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we determined that the cost to do so would exceed the appropriate limit.

Case reference FOI2023/01896

Published 11 December 2023

Request

Please supply details of the Parking Order For Mill Street Car Park, Kington:

• A copy of the Order as made, dimensions of places, signs to be displayed for Electric Vehicles only, and for Disabled spaces.

• When the markings were last painted.

• When the space markings were last checked for legibility.

• When all earlier non-applicable markings were permanently removed.

Please provide statistics of all penalty notices, as held, issued for:

• General car parking spaces

• Electric vehicles spaces used by non-electric vehicles

• Disabled spaces by failure to display a blue badge

• Including if appealed, and if successful, and if informal/formal/independent adjudicator.

An example of inadequate defective markings is on FMS:

https://www.fixmystreet.com/report/5247002

Clarification: This is only for Orders and penalty notices which are in force today.

Response

Please supply details of the Parking Order For Mill Street Car Park, Kington:

• A copy of the Order as made, dimensions of places, signs to be displayed for Electric Vehicles only, and for Disabled spaces.

• When the markings were last painted.

• When the space markings were last checked for legibility.

• When all earlier non-applicable markings were permanently removed.

Please provide statistics of all penalty notices, as held, issued for:

• General car parking spaces

• Electric vehicles spaces used by non-electric vehicles

• Disabled spaces by failure to display a blue badge

• Including if appealed, and if successful, and if informal/formal/independent adjudicator.

An example of inadequate defective markings is on FMS:

https://www.fixmystreet.com/report/5247002

Clarification: This is only for Orders and penalty notices which are in force today.

This information is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.

For the final point, which states "Including if appealed, and if successful, and if informal/formal/independent adjudicator", our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information. To ascertain the data requested, officers would need to manually check individual files for this information. An initial search has shown that 399 files would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 5 minutes to check each file. Once the details had been identified this would need to be noted and once all files had been checked in this way, the total figures requested could be calculated.

This would at a conservative estimate take at least 33 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

However, within the 18 hour limit, we can provide answers for the remaining points. Please advise us if this is something you require.

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