The mountains recede from view as farmland and villages appear the road and the River Erne is on the right then links into Corrycross Roads and the B52 to Belcoo and the A47 road into Belleek, the road then continues into Ballyshannon in County Donegal as the N3 which links into the N15 and into Bundoran. Thank you for your EIR request which I acknowledge was received by the District Council on 10 July 2017. This is because under regulation 4(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations does not include minutes of meetings and therefore there is no requirement to publish these on our website. I am concerned that you do not intend to place the meeting minutes that you provided to me on the WDC website. For example the cabinet report that is published on Warwickshire County Councils website. The ICO guidance provides clear guidance that this is an acceptable approach for this Council where there information is already available. Otherwise, you have asked that I clarify the information requested, and the period of time that the information should cover. %PDF-1.5 WebThe A46 Link Road project is a longer-term aspiration which (following the upgrade to the A46 Stoneleigh Junction) consists of a phase to run from the A46 Stoneleigh Junction to Westwood Heath, which would aim to improve access to University of Warwick and Westwood Heath Business There are far fewer lorries now than there used to be. (1) All information held by the Council regarding the proposal for the A46 Stoneleigh junction to be enlarged to create an interchange roundabout with two bridges over the A46., along with the proposed new major road from there to Warwick University and from there continue to join the A452 Balsall Common road passing along the route of HS2 to form a road link to the NEC and Birmingham Airport. The 87A bus line (Coventry) has 2 routes. It is now expected to start this autumn with completion in 2022, and highways officers say funding is now in place. In an email to Coun Skinner seen by the Observer, Coventry City Councils head of transport John Seddon suggested part of the scheme was still subject to government funding approval. This will include the documentation within which the claimed merits of such a road have been identified, and any evidence claimed to substantiate such merits. View as HTML. I am also aware that you have received a request from a constituent for an update on the A46 Stoneleigh Junction. The following ideas should be developed: The university and businesses should work together with the councils to reduce car use. %PDF-1.4 % However, information released after a request under EIR Section 5 is unequivocally Environmental Information. The A46 is a road in County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland. The council has no funding available and any construction won't start until 1995 at the earliest and the recent opening of the Coventry Eastern Bypass has actually reduced traffic levels on the A452. I do not appear to have received your reference number for this request. If the District Council is able to provide you with the information you have requested, then you are entitled to receive it within 20 working days. Value 4.4. 0000414038 00000 n (05798215). 1 0 obj 0000412168 00000 n Therefore it would not be appropriate for this information to be disclosed at this time. I am grateful for your confirmation and acknowledgement that the materials you have provided to me were the substantive minutes of the meetings of the A46 Central Area Working Group contrary to previous claims that they were unfinished documents. Controversy remains over a planned new link road from the junctions new roundabout to Westwood Heath and the university, with consultation due this autumn. !ZUWii 0 . It is intended that a new major road will continue from there to Warwick University and from there continue to join the A452 233 Kenilworth to Solihull. Medical records from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, show rising admissions for chest and respiratory illness while local air quality has worsened.. The A452 continues as dual carriageway for a short while, but then exits with the dual carriageway section continuing as the A446 up to M6 motorway, junction 4. The request and responses is on line at this link: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n A follow up and meta-request was submitted on the 3rd August 2016, The initial request was in the following terms, Please provide all information that you hold relating to such a potential new road development. Indeed, the Haseley Knob bypass is a good thrash if you can catch it empty. The information may be held independently by the authority or will be included in communications to or from other public agencies.. These meeting records confirm a deliberate strategy to keep information out of the public domain. I'm currently clearing out the loft and found a page from the local newspaper dated 15 July 1989. Similarly, the published information particularly lacks information about the route options that are being considered for phase 3 of the road proposal. It would also serve thousands of new homes at the proposed controversial Kings Hill housing development near Stoneleigh and the Finham area of Coventry. Therefore it would not be appropriate for this information to be disclosed at this time. Help us protect your right to hold public authorities to account. The Highways England technical approval process has started and ecological works to protect the environment and minimise the impact of the scheme have been carried out. Download I have also been unable to disclose a further selection information by virtue of Environmental information Regulation 12(4)(d) in that this information held by Warwick District Council is Material in the course of completion, unfinished documents and incomplete data. Warwick District Council endobj Milverton Hill, Royal Leamington Spa, CV32 5HZ. Warwick District Council has now considered your request for information. Service 4.5. Sir Andrew Watson, chair of CPRE Warwickshire has now written to Kenilworth MP Jeremy Wright who has previously raised concerns, as have Coventry South Labour MP Zarah Sultana, Coventry Conservative ward councillors, and nearby parish councils. With regard to the request that this Council publishes the notes, released to you, on our website, the Council will not be taking this step. Clarification of the detailed route options under consideration has not been provided. by poshbakerloo Mon Jul 03, 2017 01:33, Post 8.5M These are personal notes used as an aid memoir as opposed to minutes (as I incorrectly stated in my previous email). On that basis, this request now should be regarded as a request that includes the previously requested but withheld information in addition to the information falling under the terms of the request that has come to be held by the authority subsequent to my previous request. Therefore the Council intend to reply you by no later than next Thursday 7 September 2017. Electric bikes mean people can easily cycle further; the university and business area are now in range for many cyclists from Kenilworth, Leamington and most of Coventry. Ah A74(M), such a great road, but it must be annoying that everyone gets your name wrong! (b)take reasonable steps to organize the information relevant to its functions with a view to the active and systematic dissemination to the public of the information. (05798215). I note your comments with regard to Warwickshire County Council in respect of future publication under EIR Section 4. The total budget for local A46 road building is 320,000,000 of which this phase 2 link road is about 70,000,000. After 1 April 2016. This article related to the geography of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland is a stub. Deputy Monitoring Officer I used to live in Balsall Common and when the new road was built to the east of the Kenilworth Road down to the Station it was said to be a bypass by stealth, but it's ended up just being a way to open up new land for development, and they have had to put up all sorts of humps to keep down the speed of boy racers using the largely quiet road. Thank you for your reply of the 21st July 2017 in respect of my enquiry that is on line at the following URL. I have reviewed the request and it seems clear on both counts. This is because under regulation 4(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations does not include minutes of meetings and therefore there is no requirement to publish these on our website. I do not appear to have received your reference number for this request. Riverside House Save. I have temporarily placed those documents on line at the following link. to get daily news updates straight to your news feed. Democratic Services Manager and Preferential parking for electric vehicles and charging points for bikes. Group email address: [email address] This will include the documentation within which the claimed merits of such a road have been identified, and any evidence claimed to substantiate such merits. I look forward to your substantive reply. 0000579443 00000 n WebThe A452 is a road in England, which runs from Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire to Brownhills in the West Midlands. Corporate Support Team Assistant If the District Council is able to provide you with the information you have requested, then you are entitled to receive it within 20 working days. Warwick District Council, Graham Leach, Finally Warwickshire County Council are the lead authority for this matter and they will publish the documents referred in regulation 4 (4) (a) that relate to the A46 link road. The passage of time further weakens the already dubious claimed engagement of the exemptions that have been previously claimed in this matter. Supported by some MPs and councillors, campaigners have been lobbying ministers to call in the scheme for a review over future traffic projections for already heavily congested main arterial routes including the A45 and A46, and between the University of Warwick and the National Agricultural Centre at Stoneleigh. 0000577559 00000 n With regard to the notes that have been disclosed to you regarding your previous request, Warwick District Council will not be publishing these on our website. Unless the Council hears from you we will proceed with the request on this basis. WebThe A46 Strategic Link Road is a very exciting scheme both for Warwickshire and the wider sub-region. However, the information referred to in Article 7(2) of the Directive is as follows: 3 0 obj xref 0000069833 00000 n 0000492704 00000 n WebCroft, Pinewoods, Singers Piece, Spinningwheel Copse, Stewards Copse, The Shaw, Tortington Common, Winchers Copse, Threecorner Wood. In Ballyshannon certain road signs have destinations A46 Enniskillen with N3 Dublin with the requisite single arrow pointing in the same direction. Corporate Support Team Assistant This is because at the time of your request some of the information held by the District Council is held in draft form and or is yet to be completed. On woman who lives on Waste Lane obviously doesn't want the road going past her house. I refer to the request for information that I submitted in April 2016 seeking information held by your authority in respect of this road. It is understood the link road to the University of Warwick from Stoneleigh could be scheduled for completion in 2024 on the latest timescales. The best way to contact us is via the Burton Green Facebook group (see just below), or E-mail. This request has been closed to new correspondence. Once the Council has received this information and have confirmed that they understand the request we will process your request. by Alderpoint Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:47, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited, SABRE - The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts WebBalsall Common is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. I can confirm that a concurrent request has also been again submitted to them. 0000001534 00000 n 0000414605 00000 n The A46 road runs along the Ballyshannon Road which has a park on the left called Brooke Park and The Round O. Portora Royal School is on a drumlin to the right of the road continues northwesterly leaving the Enniskillen at Silverhill before heading into the countryside of the Ulster Lakeland, with farms and golf courses and woodland and glimpses of Lower Lough Erne. Receive a weekly update to your inbox by signing up to our weekly newsletter. Particularly, on the 16th December 2015, it is reported that there is a Long Term vision that is compatible with expressway vision from Tollbar across airport to north of runway, south of Baginton and Finham to new junction below Stoneleigh.. mySociety Thank you for your email of the 31st August. So that I can assist you further, it would be helpful if you would indicate in what way the terms of my request are ambiguous or otherwise problematic? is a registered charity in England and Wales (1076346) Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A46_road_(Northern_Ireland)&oldid=951218312, Northern Ireland building and structure stubs, All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English, Articles lacking sources from September 2013, Infobox road instances in Northern Ireland, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 April 2020, at 02:16. In addition to the attached documents I draw your attention to Warwick District Council agenda for 20 September 2017, available on the Council's website. Democratic Services Manager and http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/a46linkroad There are other questions which you may want to respond to, for example the electric Very Light Rail could make a valuable contribution. Website: www.warwickdc.gov.uk, Dear Dr Thornton, A consultation that rejects the road will help our Green councillors achieve a genuinely sustainable approach to transport. WARWICKSHIRE highways bosses are tightlipped over delays to a major new link road and junction improvement scheme for the county, Coventry and Solihull region amid residents protests. services through our wholly owned subsidiary Royal Leamington Spa Warwick District Council https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/j Clearly neither I, nor the regulations, require you to republish information that you or others have already published. 0000576501 00000 n As for any Balsall Common bypess, then this seems most likely now to be happen via the new A46 link road from Stoneleigh up past the university which may end up on the A452 N of Balsall Common (or alternatively on the A45, which I think less likely. That information should be readily to hand and easily identified. Democratic Services Manager and Download Run by Volunteers and powered by Alaveteli. Warwick District Council has considered this request and would appreciate clarification from you to enable it to respond to you accurately. They are highlighting a flawed report by consultants ARUP, which forecast even more traffic at main A45 and A46 islands yet concluded the highways network could cope. A major new link road from the improved A46 Stoneleigh junction to Warwick University via Westwood Heath in Coventry is planned to tackle congestion and improve links to Stoneleigh Park exhibition centre. Your request is currently being considered. Any similar material from meetings of the A46 Central Area Working Group (or similar) subsequent to those that have been provided, will fall within the terms of my request. This request has been closed to new correspondence. 0000001575 00000 n (a)progressively make the information available to the public by electronic means which are easily accessible; and FOI Department Warwick District Council Dear Sirs, It was revealed in February 2016 that it is intended that the A46 Stoneleigh junction will be enlarged to create an interchange roundabout with two bridges over the A46. (d) the reports on the state of the environment referred to in paragraph 3; The Council has no further information for disclosure and it is mindful that at present the Information Commissioner is considering this case. (e) data or summaries of data derived from the monitoring of activities affecting, or likely to affect, the environment; HS2 phase one between the Birmingham Interchange station and London has been delayed up to five years to 2031, and is under a review called by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. %%EOF It sets an absolute minimum requirement for information to be published but indicates a requirement to additionally publish more widely defined environmental information. to get daily news updates straight to your news feed. The new road would later extend through Solihull borough towards the new HS2 interchange station, nearby NEC and the UK Central Despite WCC & WDC declaring that we face a climate emergency there is no consideration of this in any part of the proposal. 0000567416 00000 n ------------------------------------------------------------ <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.44 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Deputy Monitoring Officer, Democratic Services, Warwick District Council, Riverside House, 0000567257 00000 n In Ballyshannon the N15 heading northwards connects with Donegal Town. The Stratford Observer is one of a group of local weekly newspapers spanning Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands published by Bullivant Media Group - each newspaper providing all the latest local news, sport and advertising, in print and 247 on line. EIR Regulation 4 states I have been unable to disclose some information to you because it is the personal data of officers and third parties and therefore to disclose it would be contradictory to the provisions of the Data Protection Act. Between Brownhills and Kenilworth it follows the line of the ancient drover's road called the Welsh Road, which probably has pre-Roman origins.[1]. However, the information referred to in Article 7(2) of the Directive is as follows: Corporate Support Team After 1 April 2016. by Truvelo Wed Apr 04, 2012 17:01, Post 53 0 obj <>stream Digest - 3. Like or follow our Facebook page - In respect of Part 2 attached is a copy of the information that can be disclosed to you, at this time. Warwick District Council, Download a zip file of all correspondence, http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/a46linkroad. Even now, I urge that the authority stops prevaricating and publishes that information and ceases the avoidable waste of time for the office of the information Commissioner. Councillor Jeff Clarke, portfolio holder for transport, told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire that such major projects take time. <> WebThe link road is around 5km long and would remove about 25 Hectares of land from the Green Belt between Coventry and Kenilworth, and effectively close the gap between the two towns. Warwick District Council has considered this request and would appreciate clarification from you to enable it to respond to you accurately. The dual carriageway is close to oven-ready with the business case, traffic modeling and outline route developed, and funding anticipated. WebThere is also uncertainty over a suggested third phase which would extend the A46 link road onwards to Solihull borough at Balsall Common and the A45 towards a new HS2 Interchange station near the NEC. The outstanding requirement is for publication of the information now held that relates to any and all of the route options for this road new road proposal. In respect of Part 1 the Council has previously considered this request and subsequently disclosed information to you on this matter. 0000002064 00000 n Milverton Hill In communication seen by the Observer, officials for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have confirmed Secretary of State Robert Jenrick MP is considering a call-in of the planning applications taking decisions out of local council planners hands after receiving a high volume of representations. Commuters are familiar with long tail-backs in rush-hour at the A46 Island at Kenilworth, through Stoneleigh, the A45/A46 Stivichall junction, and beyond to Tollbar Island and A45 Kenpas Highway. Nothing Unusual. 0000579693 00000 n Warwick District Council. Warwick District Council, Graham Leach, Any similar material from meetings of the A46 Central Area Working Group (or similar) subsequent to those that have been provided, will fall within the terms of my request. You don't have to answer any more questions than you want, and you can go forwards and backwards to see what it covers. Direct line: 01926 456123 In addition, the passage of time further erodes the public interest arguments claimed in support of withholding information. The entire scheme is dependent on that information so options must have been considered and that information must be held. Summary information that records no more than that previously placed in the public domain about the road proposal has recently been placed on the Warwickshire County Council website at their URL. Yours sincerely Graham Leach I felt it would be useful to provide you with an update on this request for information. The Council has no further information for disclosure and it is mindful that at present the Information Commissioner is considering this case. The M40 and M42 had a major impact there. (a)the information referred to in Article 7(2) of the Directive; and 0000575764 00000 n It is sufficient for you to provide a reference for that material. Please note that this request is also being submitted via the whatdotheyknow.com website where it will be publically accessible. Demand management using parking charges & availability. 233 Solihull to Kenilworth. I note the at least in that regulation. I also draw your attention to the Warwick District Council website specifically the pages relating to the development of our Local Plan for 2011-2029 which also contains further information and documents relating to the Link road. I am at a loss to understand how you can regard these documents particularly, and meeting minutes more generally, as not falling under the obligation to publish unrequested and spontaneously. The official information provided by WCC is here: https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/a46linkroad The closing date for objections to Phase 1, the A46 roundabout, is Wednesday 5th September. Milverton Hill, Royal Leamington Spa, CV32 5HZ. A site to help anyone submit a Freedom of Information request. If you are dissatisfied with the response from Warwick District Council, you are entitled to request an internal review. The huge housing development off Stoneleigh Road on former Greenbelt land near Gibbet Hill stretching to Finham in Coventry received planning consent last December from Warwick and Coventry councils. mySociety S ?W00pMbeF\\0 3|NN`qF6 % Upto 1 April 2016. Firstly, it is the unnecessary destruction of the Green Belt. The link road is around 5km long and would remove about 25 Hectares of land from the Green Belt between Coventry and Kenilworth, and effectively close the gap between the two towns. These meet and the road heads into Leamington along Europa Way, a road newly created at the same time as the M40 extension in that area. The A46 road leaves He adds: Kings Hill is just one area of Green belt around Coventry where owners are proposing sizeable developments, which will have devastating cumulative effects on the road network and on air quality both locally and in the city centre and adjoining major roads. (b)take reasonable steps to organize the information relevant to its functions with a view to the active and systematic dissemination to the public of the information. 4.(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a public authority shall in respect of environmental information that it holds This is because at the time of your request some of the information held by the District Council is held in draft form and or is yet to be completed. It was part of housing targets for around 30,000 more homes for Coventry in the next decade and nationally driven population growth forecasts. Kind Regards Harpreet Dulay In respect of Part 2 attached is a copy of the information that can be disclosed to you, at this time. Royal Leamington Spa As such it should usually be properly published along with other environmental information that is published spontaneously and unrequested under EIR Section 4. If you would like to receive messages, or to send out a message, E-mail, https://solihullobserver.co.uk/news/secret-details-for-phase-three-of-a45-a46-bypass-anger-residents-9039/, https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/a46linkroad, https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/new_road_stoneleigh_crackley_gap_4, https://burtongreen.blogspot.com/2017/11/minutes-of-residents-association-agm.html, https://burtongreen.blogspot.com/2017/05/a46-link-road.html, https://burtongreen.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-new-link-road.html. % Discuss - There is an active Facebook group for residents with 475 members. by Jonathan B4027 Wed Apr 04, 2012 20:19, Post Source: Ordnance Survey base map/DEFRA Magic Map application Figure 1: The preferred route This map is a diagrammatic representation.

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