Thank you for your original email of 30 December 2022, requesting information from Ordnance Survey in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, and your additional email of 4 January 2023, clarifying your request.
The text of your original email, our request for clarification, and your response to our request for clarification are set out in the extracts below for ease of reference:
Your original email of 30 December 2022:
“Please can you confirm what restrictions are placed on Parish Councils who may wish to use your mapping for planning matters. and if there a clause saying they need to refer to HM Land Registry to confirm easements and historic rights of way.”
OS request for clarification of 4 January 2023:
“From our preliminary assessment, we will not be able to answer your request for information without further clarification. To ensure that we understand exactly what information you require, it would be useful if you are able to provide further clarification on what the matter is regarding and specifically what you mean by ‘restrictions’ This will enable us to provide an appropriate and accurate response to your request.
In the meantime, the following information may assist you:
If the Parish Council, you are referring to is a member of our Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) they will have access to use OS data in accordance with the terms of their PSGA Member Licence and they are required to add the relevant OS acknowledgement of copyright and database rights when using data derived from OS. You can find out further information on the PSGA and whether the Parish Council is a member on our website: The PSGA | Government and public sector | Ordnance Survey and the use of OS acknowledgements here: Copyright acknowledgements | OS Licensing (ordnancesurvey.co.uk). There is nothing in the PSGA Member Licence which specifically references the need for them to refer to HM Land Registry to confirm easements and historic rights of way. Please note that Local Authorities have definitive maps which record rights of way.”
Your email of 4 January 2023:
“with regard to interpreting information on the licenced mapping and the information I down loaded from the Land Registry.. I am awaiting certified copy's [sic] from the Land Registry It would be good to know if the title plan shows an easement that it takes precedent over licenced mapping that does on my first inspection of licenced mapping does not show it.
Title number XXXXXX accessed 19 December 2022 showing the registered owners of our right of way being XXXXX care of XXXXX The entry date was 2020-05-01 Charge C on the register Charge C clearly shows our right of way Class Title absolute entered 2008-05-14 My problem is the Parish Council not acknowledging the presence of our easement.”