Highway licence permit applications: EIR request

Information requested

The number of applications received between 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 for the following highway licences/permits:

Cranes / Cherry pickers / MEWPS
Hoardings / Site Fencing
Material on highway
Scaffolding
Skips
Café tables and chairs
A Boards
TTRO's / TTRN's
Section 50's
Section 171's
Crossovers / Dropped Kerbs
Highways Searches
Lane Rental Waiver Requests

With reference to the s50 and s171 licences, for the same time period, how many notice of works, reinstatement notices and traffic management control forms were received?’

Response

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.

1. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have some of the information you have requested. Therefore we are refusing your request under the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs. This is because Transport Scotland is only responsible for the Trunk Road network. Local Authorities should be contacted for their specific areas.

Transport Scotland received the following number of applications between 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 –
 

Cranes / Cherry pickers / MEWPS	2
Hoardings / Site Fencing	0
Material on highway	0
Scaffolding	56
Skips	9
Café tables and chairs	1
A Boards	1
TTRO's / TTRN's	144
Section 50's	2
Section 171's	7
Crossovers / Dropped Kerbs	0
Highways Searches	7
Lane Rental Waiver Requests Bottom of Form	0
With reference to the s50 and s171 licences, for the same time period, how many notice of works, reinstatement notices and traffic management control forms were received	3563

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