Disclosure Log

Rufford Ford - report on proposed action update (FOI/5061)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 05 December 2024

Dear *****

Environmental information request: information withheld – Ref: FOI/00005061

Thank you for your request for:

I make further FOI Act 2000 / EIR 2004 request for an update in respect of the completion of “Rufford Ford Interim Report / Final Report” as referred to in correspondence 30/04/24.
 
  1. Please provide any copy of the analysis of all submitted public consultation responses including the number of such responses – those which oppose restriction and those that support restriction to vehicular traffic.
 
  1. Please provide all copies of any Reports to Members which relate to the future closure schedule of Rufford Lane at Rufford Ford.

We received your request on 20 November 2024.

Following careful consideration, I regret to inform you that we have decided not to disclose this information.

The information you request is being withheld because it falls under the exception in regulation 12(4)(d) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR).  This regulation relate to:

(d) the request relates to material which is still in the course of completion, to unfinished documents or to incomplete data;

Currently the analysis of the responses to the public consultation is still ongoing and will be the subject of a report to the Cabinet Member for Transport and Highways in 2025.  The report will be published on our website when it is presented to the Cabinet Member.
 
In applying this exception, we have had to balance the public interest in withholding the information against the public interest in disclosure.  The factors we considered in deciding where the public interest lay are wishing to be open and transparent about the consultation against having to divert public resources to complete the analysis more quickly for your request as well as rushing to disclose the information could result in inaccuracies.

Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to EIR 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 unhappy with the way the authority has handled your request, you may ask for an internal review.  Please contact: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected], who will arrange to review your case.  Under regulation 11(2), you must contact us for a review no later than 40 working days after the date of this letter.

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://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Colin Sawers
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP
Tel: (0115) 977 3714