Road Improvements - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Road Improvements
FOI Number
363
Date Received
07/04/2022
Type of Request
EIR
Request or Question
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act into roadworks and investment in roads across your local authority area.I have detailed my request below:1. How many miles of road were worked on in your local authority area in the last three years? 2019 2020 2021
Number of miles of road worked on in your local authority area
2. How many miles of road were closed in the last three years in your local authority?
2019 2020 2021
Number of miles of road closed in the last three years in your local authority
3. How many miles of road will be worked on in your local authority over the next 12 months?
Next 12 months
Number of miles of road which will be worked on in your local authority
4. How many miles of road will be closed in the next 12 months?
Next 12 months
Number of miles of road which will be closed in your local authority
5. How much money has been invested in road improvements in the last three years? Please break down by years if possible.
2019 2020 2021
Amount of money invested in road improvements in your local authority
Response
Q1-4.The Council does not keep records on the length of roads closed nor the overall length of works as detailed in the EIR as we are not required to report on road length as a metric as part of any auditory purposes.
We do not receive nor record details of each road closure length as many of the works relating to road closures change as works progress daily. We receive a not to scale map/plan from a utility company, but these maps/plans do not detail closure length.
To review the last 3 years of road closures and to measure the extent of each patch, pothole, drainage, road crossing, etc. manually would be extremely complex and voluminous.
Under 10(4)(b) of EI(S)R 2004 Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to comply with a request that is considered to be manifestly unreasonable.
All information on road closures that the Council hold is public and can be found on the public website (link below) this allows the public to review historic notices and as of this evening there are 15,158 archived notices available for the public to review.
We can provide a value for the number of roads closed for each year which would include road closures associated with events.
5. Amount of money invested in road improvements in your local authority £10,943,512 financial year 2019/20 £10,209,804 financial year 2020/21 This figure will not be available until after we have completed our year end process. Therefore we refer to Regulation 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare that the information is not held.
