Disclosure Log

Planned repairs - Roads in Mansfield (FOI/7205)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 06 February 2026

Dear *********,

 

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/7205

Thank you for your request for information relating to Planned repairs - Roads in Mansfield.

We are now able to provide the following information:

As local authorities responsible for road maintenance and public safety, Mansfield District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council have a duty to ensure that the road network is maintained to an appropriate and safe standard. I would therefore ask that this matter be treated as a priority and that clear information be provided regarding

1 - Planned inspections –

Please see attached a list of all roads in Mansfield district with the inspection frequency for carriageways and footways as well as the month the inspection is due. The month listed is the month which a road has its enhanced/walked inspection. If a road is inspected more frequently than annually then other months are safety/driven inspections.

We are unable to provide the exact inspection dates for all roads and this element of your request is exempt under s.12 of the Freedom of information act – Please see below.

2 - maintenance schedules for roads in Mansfield –

Maintenance schedules do not exist. Reactive maintenance is raised when defects are identified as per the NCC Highway Inspection & Risk Manual (HIRM), available on the below link.
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/transport/roads/highway-inspection-manual

Our Capital programme for 2025-26 is attached which a list of planned maintenance/improvements schemes across the authority. Or other maintenance programmes are published on www.nottshighways.co.uk

Next years highways capital maintenance programme will be announced in March following political approval

3 - Criteria used to determine when permanent repairs are undertaken –

Repairs are identified and ordered as per the NCC HIRM, linked above.

4 - Steps being taken to address the recurring nature of road defects –

Too Broad - This question is exempt under s.12 of the Freedom of Information Act – Please see below.

5 - What actions will be taken to improve the condition of local roads and prevent further deterioration.

Too Broad - This question is exempt under the s.12 of the Freedom of Information Act – Please see below.

Reason for Refusal – Section 12 (Cost of Compliance Exceeds the Appropriate Limit)
Section 12(1) of the FOIA allows a public authority to refuse a request where it estimates that the cost of locating, retrieving and extracting the requested information would exceed the appropriate limit, currently £450 (equivalent to 18 hours’ work at £25 per hour) for local authorities.

Following a preliminary review, we estimate that responding to your request would require work more than this limit. This is because:

  • The information you requested is not held in a single location, system, or document.
  • Extensive manual searching across multiple systems, records, or archives would be required.
  • Identifying, locating and extracting the relevant information would take significantly more than 18 hours of officer time.
As a result, the cost of compliance would exceed the statutory limit, and we are therefore not obliged to comply with your request.

However, under Section 16 FOIA, we have a duty to provide reasonable advice and assistance to help you refine your request so that it may fall within the cost limit.
To help you resubmit a request that we may be able to process, we suggest the following:
  • Narrow the timeframe (e.g., a specific year or defined period).
  • Limit the scope to a particular document type, reservoir site, incident, or subject area.
  • Identify specific information rather than requesting all information held on a broad topic.
  • Ask for summaries or “high-level” information, which is often easier and quicker to compile.

RESPONSE

We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/7205 and we will be happy to review your request

For future reference, Nottinghamshire County Council regularly publishes previous FOI requests and answers on its website, under Disclosure logs, that may provide details relating to your query. (see link) Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.   Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/global-content/privacy

 



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