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8th August 2023
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Local Plan Policy map
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1. Can you please provide the Local Plan Policies map for the Council? Can you please provide this in shapefile (.shp) format?
After consideration and advice Wokingham Borough Council will not be releasing the requested GIS shapefiles on the following grounds:
1) Section 21(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 sets out an absolute exemption to an FOI request whereby the information is reasonably accessible to the applicant.
The Council has made its GIS mapping data publicly available online at www.wokingham.gov.uk. The Council is not therefore obliged to provide the information requested, as it is already publicly available online for the applicant to access themselves.
2) Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 sets out that FOI requests shall be refused where they could prejudice commercial interests of an organisation.
The Ordnance Survey (OS) licensing agreement shared with public service bodies, including Wokingham Borough Council, makes it clear that FOI requests for OS data in digital format (including data that is derived from OS data) shall be refused, given that vector data can be commercially exploited and hence undermine the revenues of OS and its licensed partners.
