Please provide all highway inspection logs, public defect reports, and the specific risk assessments that prompted the 1st – 4th September road closure of the road from Bickleigh, Bickleigh Bridge to Burn Cross.
The defects report can be found on this Devon County Council webpage.
The enquiries report can be found on this Devon County Council webpage.
Some information in the reports 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
Regarding risk assessments, Devon County Council does not hold any information regarding risk assessments for this road closure.
In the interests of providing advice and assistance we can confirm that Council Officers were aware of the need to upgrade the ageing street lighting assets around the bridge; columns needed to be replaced or uprighted, lanterns to be replaced with up to date LED lights and a monitoring system installed along with a new base station.
A decision was made to replace all at once necessitating a single road closure in this difficult location. The opportunity was taken to undertake other road maintenance works whilst the road closure for street lighting works was in place, including patching works.