FOI Request - Cattle Grids

Request 101003422018

Please note that for the below questions 1, 2 and 3 cattle grids are defined as “a device designed to prevent the passage of animals, or animals of any particular description, but to allow the passage of all or some other traffic, and includes any fence or other works necessary for securing the efficient operation of the said device”..

1.  Does the council currently have a policy of removing existing, or not installing new cattle grids? If so, why?

2. Please state the total number of cattle grids the Council is responsible for, the total number of cattle grids removed, number of accidents reported involving cattle grids and number of complaints involving cattle grids, number of requests for removal of cattle grids and number of requests for implementation of new cattle grids in the area the Council is responsible for, in the following years?

                                                             2020      2021   2022 2023 to (end of Sept 2023)
Number of
cattle grids on
roads maintained
by the council

Number of cattle
grids removed by
the council

Number of new
cattle grids installed
by the council

Number of accidents
involving animals
and cattle grids

Number of accidents
involving people
and cattle grids

Number of complaints
involving cattle grids

Number of requests
for removal of
cattle grids

Number of requests
for implementation
of new cattle grids

3.  For each of the following calendar years, please state the Council’s total expenditure on cattle grids separating out implementing new ones, repairs to existing ones and removing cattle grids (as per grid below):

                                                         2020          2021         2022 2023 (up until Sept 2023)
Expenditure on
implementing new
cattle grids

Expenditure on
repairing existing
cattle grids

Expenditure on
removing cattle grids

Response 17-11-2023

1. No

2. 

* Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

3.