Send the following two emails and report back on any responses and show us what they send you. The first is to Bristol Airport. Make sure you also CC yourself:
Send to: dpo@bristolairport.com
CC: privacy@bristolairport.com
Subject: Environmental information request – VCS parking enforcement contract and site plan
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please treat this as a request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
I request copies of the following environmental information held by Bristol Airport Limited:
1. The current “Concession Service Agreement (Parking Enforcement)” between Bristol Airport Limited and Vehicle Control Services Ltd (VCS), including all schedules and any variations or addenda from 1 January 2023 to the present.
2. In particular, Schedule 3 (site plan / enforcement areas) identifying the internal roads, PUDO areas, car parks, entrances/exits and any other locations where VCS is authorised to enforce.
3. Any subsequent agreement replacing or extending the above, and any documents that alter the extent of the enforcement area (e.g. changes to red-route/no-stopping coverage) since 1 January 2023.
If you consider any parts exempt (e.g. Reg 12(5)(e) – commercial confidentiality), please disclose the remainder with proportionate redactions and provide the refusal notice identifying the specific exception(s) and public-interest test outcome.
Please provide the information electronically (PDFs for text; plans as PDFs or GIS files if held).
My name and contact details are below.
Yours faithfully,
[Your name]
[Email]
[Postal address]
(For the avoidance of doubt: under the EIR, requests may be made by email and do not have to use a web form.)
Send the second one to North Somerset Council and again, CC yourself:
Send to: foi@n-somerset.gov.uk
CC: infogov@n-somerset.gov.uk
Subject: Environmental information request – Bristol Airport internal roads: enforcement extent and signage consents
Dear FOI/EIR Team,
Please treat this as a request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
For the area comprising Bristol Airport (BS48 3DY), please provide:
1. Any plans/drawings (including those lodged with planning or highways files) that show the extent and location of red-route / “no-stopping” restrictions and associated signage/road markings on internal, unadopted airport roads (not the A38) from 1 January 2018 to present.
2. Copies of any planning permissions and advertisement consents for such signage and road markings on internal airport roads within the same period, including location plans and sign layouts.
3. Any documents you hold (e.g. planning statements, conditions, s106 obligations, traffic management drawings) that delineate areas where a third-party contractor (e.g. VCS) is stated to enforce parking or stopping controls within the airport estate.
4. If held, any records clarifying whether specific airport roads are adopted or private, and the boundary between the public highway and airport-managed roads.
Please provide the information electronically (copies of decision notices, plans and any GIS layers if held). If parts are exempt, please disclose the remainder and issue a refusal notice identifying the exception(s) and public-interest test outcome.
Yours faithfully,
[Your name]
[Email]
[Postal address]