20th November 2025
Mon 05/10/2009 16:46
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2161).
Please find attached a copy of the current Communications Plan.
The discussion you refer to with NPS was not minuted so no information is held in relation to this. The response from NPS about how it can assist will not be provided to you because the Council maintains that it is exempt under section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) and Regulation 12(5)(e) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs).
Disclosure of this information would prejudice the commercial interests of NPS because the tendering process is still underway; the Council has not yet made a decision about whether to use NPS or an alternative contractor. Disclosing information about NPS’ costs to the public at this time would give their competitors an unfair advantage. The Council has considered the public interest factors in this case and recognises that it is important that the Council is accountable for the public money it spends; however in this case no money has been spent to date because the information refers to rates and not public money which has already been spent. There is also a public interest in ensuring fair competition between companies which outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information for the purposes transparency in this case.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you are entitled to ask for an internal review. Any internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review, contact foi.officer@stockport.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Claire Naven
Claire Naven
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 02 September 2009 17:49
To: FOI Officer
Subject: SEMMMS FOIA and EIR 2004
Dear Ms Naven
| Stakeholder Management | Stakeholders need to be kept informed and encouraged to support scheme | New Communication Plan being developed to re-launch scheme | Website updated Draft communication plan being discussed. Meeting 30th June | JMM | |
| Landowners need to manage expectations, access to land, CPO process – early sale discussions | Discuss with NPS re their capability to do this | Meeting arranged 10th June | NPS are preparing a response on how they can assist. Availability of Cheshire East Officers being investigated | JMM |
Please may I have a copy of the communication plan.
Please may I have the minutes of the meeting arranged on 10th June with NPS and their response on how they can assist.
Yours
Mrs S J Oliver
FOIC Stockport
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Mon 05/10/2009 15:22
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2105).
None of the meetings you have listed were minuted apart from the meetings at points (i) and (v). You have already been provided with a copy of the minutes from the meeting with the DfT; in relation to the brief to Counsel, this has already been addressed in a previous request.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you are entitled to ask for an internal review. Any internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review, contact foi.officer@stockport.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Claire Naven
Claire Naven
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 07 September 2009 17:53
To: FOI Officer
Subject: Re: FOI and EIR 2004 request A555 – Ref 2105 – Request for clarification
Ms Naven
I would like the minutes of any of those meetings listed which have taken place. It is in relation to the A555. I said Mrs Stevenson would know and she would have done had you asked her.
Yours
FOIC Stockport
—– Original Message —–
From: FOI Officer
To: Sheila Oliver
Cc: FOI Officer
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: RE: FOI and EIR 2004 request A555 – Ref 2105 – Request for clarification
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2105).
Please can you clarify exactly what you are requesting? You appear to have cut and pasted a list from a set of minutes but have not actually stated what you are asking for. Are you seeking confirmation that these meetings have taken place? Are you seeking notes of the meetings? Please specify what you are requesting.
Yours sincerely,
Claire Naven
Claire Naven
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 10 August 2009 19:13
To: FOI Officer
Subject: FOI and EIR 2004 request A555
Hi
Please may I see the following;-
1. Immediate first steps were discussed to propose to restart the project including meeting with:
i. DfT
ii. Consultants and ask for their views on delivering models and assistance with the scheme
iii. CECA
iv. Highways Agency Procurement and Major Scheme Specialist
v. Legal and following on need Council’s opinion
vi. NPS re. land support
vii. Mouchels re. EA
viii. Motts. Re. programme management assistance and modelling.
ix. Procurement and finance officers invite to consultant event.
x. Develop understanding of finance availability and profile
Mrs Stevenson will know where to look.
Kind regards
Sheila
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Wed 30/09/2009 12:53
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2160).
Please find attached the brief for consultants to respond to. The remaining information you requested is not held by the Council. The meeting with GONW has not yet taken place and the remaining meetings were not minuted.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you are entitled to ask for an internal review. Any internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review, contact foi.officer@stockport.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Claire Naven
Claire Naven
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
SEMMMS Relief Road – Proposed Consultancy Support
The three local authorities have agreed to continue to work together to deliver the SEMMMS Relief Road A6 to Airport scheme. They have agreed that Stockport Council will take the lead on managing the project.
The three authorities are starting to consider the assistance they will require to deliver the scheme and would like to receive proposals regarding the following areas of work.
- Project/Programme Management of the scheme. A review of the scheme progress to date and an identification of what needs to be done to take the scheme forward through planning to building on site.
- Support to develop the Major Scheme Business Case which must be approved within 9 months from 1st June.
- Creation of a Traffic Assessment report to support the planning application and an associated complimentary integration measures report which will be needed to support the planning application and Environmental Assessment and modelling.
The local authorities would like to receive a presentation on the first two elements of work on _________ as a documented proposal for all elements of the work. The documented proposal should be submitted by the 29th July to Sue Stevenson at Stockport MBC by electronic means and with three printed copies. The various elements of work will be awarded based on the quality and cost indications contained in the proposals and presentation.
The presentation time available is 1.5hrs per consultant and should focus on the review, your views on the next steps, project management arrangements and how you could support them. It is expected that staff who would be responsible for the project management would be part of the presentation team wherever practical.
The found individual elements of work require separate proposals including timescales, costs, the staff available and their experience to enable each proposal to be judged and awarded separately.
The work may be awarded to one or more consultants as individual elements could be delivered as part of the project team approach or alternatively one consultant could undertake all the elements if the appropriate resources are available.
It would be helpful if you could indicate whether you intend to submit a proposal and for which or all elements you intend to respond to.
Contact
Name: Sue Stevenson
Email: sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 474 4351
Address: Hygarth House
103 Wellington Road South
Stockport
SK1 3TT
- The project/programme management of the scheme is required to use an appropriate methodology e.g. Prince 2 to support the Project Board which contains representatives from Cheshire East, Manchester and Stockport and the Senior Responsible Owner – Jim McMahon from Stockport to deliver the scheme.
The project management will need to demonstrate that it can manage a complex project team which may include officers from the local authorities, possible in secondment, consultants from your own organisation and other consultants who may be working on individual elements of the scheme. This may include, but this is still subject to discussion.
Mouchells – Environmental Work
Motts – Transport Modelling
Counter Context – Public information and consultation
NPS and Cheshire East Officers leading on land issues.
The time management and cost control are crucial to the schemes eventual success and you will need to indicate how you intend to manage both of these elements. Your proposal should include proposed staff and an indication of the time/cost of the project management support you propose.
- Review of the scheme.
You are requested to review the progress of the scheme to date and recommend what works is required to progress the scheme to the submission of planning permission and beyond to construction on site. You will be able to access the existing scheme documentation and meet with internal officers and our existing consultations to help you undertake the review. Please contact Sue Stevenson of Stockport in the first instance with any requests for assistance as part of the proposal and presentation. Please indicate your view of the progress made to date and the future elements of work required to meet key milestones, e.g. approval of the MSBC submission of the planning application and commencement on site on accordance with the agreed programme. Please indicate how you can assist us with the remaining work required giving an indication of the time/costs and your staff who would be involved.
- DfT officers have indicated that they will require a Major Scheme Business Case to be submitted and approved within nine months from the 1st June 2009 for the scheme A6 – Airport. They have suggested that some of the existing business case could be required. Please indicate what you believe needs to be done, the assistance you can provide including the impact required from other consultants who may hold relevant information e.g. modelling, Environmental Assessment and a draft programme of how you would achieve the timescale indicated, costs for your assistance and the staff to be involved should also be included.
- A transport assessment will be required for the planning application. As part of the overall scheme a complimentary measures package was created to support the scheme, this needs to be reviewed with support from local authority staff probably in workshops. The workshops need to review the existing schemes and indentify others and then another workshop to review the proposed new scheme developed by the consultants. The package of measures needs to include mitigation and complimentary measures and be affordable, appropriate and achievable. The final package of measures must be a discrete document that can be referred to in the Modelling Environmental Assessment and Transport Assessment and must be completed in a time and manner which accommodates all these needs. The draft transport assessment needs to be completed for the public consultation in Spring 2010 and finalised before the planning application in Summer 2010.
Please include in your proposal the elements you would include in the TA, your approach to the creation of complimentary/mitigation measures packages and the proposed timescales, costs and staff involved.
General
It is intended that whilst work has already recommenced on the scheme that these elements of work will commence on the 1st September 2009 or earlier by agreement.
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Fri 25/09/2009 15:52
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2158).
The requested information is not held. No minutes were taken at the meeting.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you are entitled to ask for an internal review. Any internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review, contact foi.officer@stockport.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Claire Naven
Claire Naven
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 02 September 2009 17:39
To: FOI Officer
Subject: SEMMMS FOIA and EIR 2004 request
Dear Ms Naven
“A number of meetings are programmed to discuss procurement methods and from initial views it appears that early contractor involvement benefits the scheme progression through the planning process. However experience of other schemes suggests that an element of competitive pricing must be introduced to ensure best value out of the process.”
Please may I have the minutes of those meetings by email.
Yours
Mrs S J Oliver
FOIC Stockport
