See answers to previous information requests

1. Please can I see a full budget for the california crossroads redevelopment showing how much money has been spent as of today by sector.
a) Please identify how much has been spent on design.
b) Please also show the expected financial finishing position

We are not able to report on this, and to collate and review the information would exceed the appropriate limit so is refused under Section 12 of the Act.

This project has been ongoing since 2015/2016 and has been managed by people who are no longer working for the council. It would be difficult to review previous invoices and associate that work to design, consultation, trial holes etc. The reason of this is the WSP order is a time charge order so we would need to spend days/weeks with the consultant to review records and determine which designer did what work and assign it to design, trial holes, consultation, surveys etc.

This is done monthly at the time of the application between the project manager and the designer to check that Wokingham Borough Council are getting value for money and the deliverables are being met and then reported at end of year as the spend on the project.

In order to comply with this request an officer would need to sit down with WSP and review every months application again from 2015/2016 and assign it to the categories requested in the FOI. There are 108 monthly applications and it would take about an hour per invoice to assign the costs as we would need to cross reference the records of who the staff were and what they did to assign them to the right task. Therefore we imagine officer time would exceed 108 hours to do this task, which is why we are applying the Section 12 exemption (in excess of 18 hours).