Metadata for unbuilt roads

This Freedom of Information request asks for the metadata held in our Change Intelligence Database for unbuilt roads

Request for information - Ref no: FOI221065

August 31, 2022

Information request

Thank you for your email of 26/01/2022, requesting information from Ordnance Survey in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, relating to our response to your original request for information (FOI211058).

I have extracted your request of 26/01/2022 below:

“For each of the 5 roads schemes in the Change Intelligence Database, please can you send a description of the data items held (eg: date, what (email, website info etc), summary). In other words, if at this stage you could send what might be the meta-data rather than actual data. I am suggesting this because it should involve less resources, and it is not a blanket, please send everything in the database request. Once I see the meta-data, then I may be able refine my request to particular items.”

Our response

I confirm that Ordnance Survey does hold the information you have requested.

I am pleased to provide you with the attached spreadsheet (xlsx) which contains all the information we hold in our Change Intelligence Database for the five road schemes.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by copyright. You are free to use if for your own purposes, including private study and non-commercial research, and for any other purpose authorised by an exception in current copyright law. Documents (except photographs) can be used in the UK without requiring permission for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. Most documents supplied by Ordnance Survey will have been produced within government and will be Crown copyright

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