William Perrin TAL

Local data, local actionMADWD

18 March 2011

William Perrin - william@talkaboutlocal.org@willperrin

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The ‘Crackavan’Rufford Street c2004In front of my house Pics – Mark Bailey

Public Sector Information in actionBrand new street light broken for 163 daysSomeone isn’t living up to contractFrom snagging to failureCan performance data help hold to account?

Highway authority BV 215b - average time taken to repair a street

lighting fault, where response time is under the

control of a DNO Enfield 7.74 Ealing 9.35 Tower Hamlets 12.31 Harrow 13.40 Barnet 16.98 Hounslow 17.27 Southwark 17.43 City 19.00 Hammersmith and Fulham 20.21 Wandsworth 20.76 Hillingdon 20.81 Richmond 21.09 Waltham Forest 21.93 Haringey 21.96 Kingston Upon Thames 22.00 Barking and Dagenham 23.34* Merton 23.53 Havering 24.95 Kensington and Chelsea 25.88 Islington 26.50 Croydon 27.06 Redbridge 27.28 Newham 27.46 Sutton 27.89 Brent 30.54 Hackney 32.16 Lambeth 32.84 Camden 32.94 Bromley 35.69 Lewisham 38.77* Westminster 39.84* Transport for London 42.40 Greenwich 70.99 Bexley 77.45

2007-2008 Took a lifetime to find basic relevant information on web

Street light repair – Islington average 26.5 days v 163 here

Lever for getting things done

Light gets fixed due to this and other factors

Abandoned cars and weekly arsonBingfield Park, Rufford Street 2002In front of my house Pics – Mark Bailey

This 2010 open data would have been priceless in 2002 when fighting acute arson problem in Caledonian Ward

A planning campaign is an information and process game

Open data will be vital to new planning regime and neighbourhood plans

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