Cost of traffic light installation at Old Craighall Junction: EIR release
- Published
- 25 October 2019
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/19/02248
- Date received
- 27 September 2019
- Date responded
- 23 October 2019
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs).
Information requested
You asked for the cost of the recent works to install traffic lights to Old Craighall Junction, the intersection of the A720 and A1.
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Response
The construction cost for the scheme of works at Old Craighall Junction was £1.54m.
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