1.In Devon County Council’s (DCC) highway inspection manual, where does it refer to action on shared surfaces?
DCC’s Highway Safety Policy does not specifically refer to ‘shared surfaces’. However, it does describe circumstances where an area of carriageway will require the investigatory criteria of a footway defect to be applied and these are detailed in section 11.1 of our policy.
2. What resulting action should an inspection take?
DCC do not hold this information because resulting actions will be determined by individual inspections.
3. When does a defect on a shared surface meet the criteria for repair?
This information is already publicly available in section 11.1 of the Highway Safety Policy
4. Are you confident these rejections could be defended in court under s58?
This is not a request for information DCC hold, but a request for our opinion, and as such can not be dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act or the Environmental Information Regulations. In the interests of providing advice and assistance, our Highways team have stated “our robust system of inspections allows the vast majority of insurance claims we receive to be successfully defended.”
5. Records of any inspections carried out on Stoke Road Stokeinteignhead, including dates of inspections, actionable defects, recordable defects between January 2019 to the present day.
Please refer to this Records of Inspections document
6.Were they walked or driven?
Driven