DBE - Information, City of London Corporation

Dear Chris Wragg,



FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST



Following your request for information of 19 July 2017, and our

acknowledgement of 20 July 2017, the City of London (CoL) responds as

follows.



Bank Junction comprises the approaches of Princes Street, Threadneedle

Street, Cornhill, Poultry, Lombard Street, King William Street and Queen

Victoria Street. The owners of vehicles which do not comply with the

trial restriction at Bank Junction are liable to receive a Penalty Charge

Notice (PCN) for the contravention.



The ‘Bank on Safety’ experimental traffic scheme became operational on

Monday 22 May 2017, only buses and pedal cycles are able to cross Bank

Junction, between the hours of 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday. During this

time all other vehicles are advised of this restriction and to use

alternative routes via advanced warning signs on the approaches to the

junction and the wider area.



For the period 22/05/2017 to 06/06/17 inclusive, the CoL issued 15,732

warning notices, in the form of a letter, to vehicles which did not comply

with these restrictions. The warning notice sought to improve compliance

without issuing a payable Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).



The issuing of PCN’s commenced on 07/06/2017. During the period

07/06/2017 to 14/07/2017, (FOI request date), 41,948 PCNs were issued:



The CoL confirms, in accordance with section 1(1)(a) of the FOIA, that is

does not record/hold information on the ‘Type of vehicle’ involved in the

issue of a PCN.



If you have any queries or concerns, please contact me.



If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your

request under the FOIA, please make your complaint in writing to our

Complaints Officer at [1][email address].



For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints procedure, please visit the

following page: [2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which

is located the FOI complaints procedure.



If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints Procedure, you are still

dissatisfied, you may request the Information Commissioner to investigate.

The Information Commissioner is a Crown appointment, responsible for

monitoring compliance with the FOIA. Please contact: Information

Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [3]www.ico.org.uk



Please note that the Act applies to the CoL as a local authority, police

authority and port health authority.



CoL holds the copyright in this communication. The supply of it does not

give you a right to re-use it in a way that would infringe that copyright,

for example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public

or to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be

reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and

Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for

non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news

reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.



Yours sincerely,





Performance & Standards Officer

Department of the Built Environment

Phone 020 7606 3030

[4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk



