Please provide the following details relating to the road between Grays Cross and Berners Cross, Winkleigh, Devon:
1) a copy of your current road maintenance policy relating to that road. Please send me the full policy, this should include details of the intended frequency of road inspections, how these inspections should be conducted and the maximum time between identification of a defect and repairs being carried out.
Please see this Devon County Council (DCC) webpage for our current Highway Safety Policy.
2) A copy of the road repair history for that road over the past year. Again, please send me the full road repair history, this should include:
– dates of all safety inspections between 1.3.2026 and 1.5.2026
– details of how all safety inspections were undertaken (walked or driven, speed of inspection vehicle etc)
– details of all carriageway defects identified, with description, date and time
– details of how the authority handled these defects, what repairs were undertaken and the time between the identification of each defect and a repair being carried out.
Please see this Devon County Council webpage for this information.
Please not that some information has been redacted. This is because this information is exempt from disclosure under Regulation 13(1) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (Personal Data).
Devon County Council can confirm the requested information is held; however, the Council cannot disclose personal information, if releasing it would contravene any of the provisions in the UK General Data Protection Regulation. In this instance release of this information would contravene Principle (a) – Lawful, Fairness, and Transparency – of the UK GDPR and therefore the information is withheld.