Surface area of Plymouth

Thank you for your email of 8 April 2022, requesting information from Ordnance Survey in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, as set out in the extract below:

“Within your standard FOI time-frame of 20 working days, please can you provide me via email the most up-to-date surface area in square metres of the land inside the boundaries of the City of Plymouth for each of the primary land functions listed below with all the listed filters applied. The Primary Function categories (reported in square metres of land for each): 'Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces', 'Amenity - Residential Or Business', 'Private Garden', 'Public Park Or Garden' filtered down to just the portion of those land areas with secondary functions of: Null, 'Private Garden', Primary Forms of: Null, 'Open Semi-Natural', 'Multi Surface', and Secondary Forms of: Null.”

I confirm that Ordnance Survey does hold the information that you have requested, however, we are unable to comply with your request and provide the information, as we consider the information to be exempt from disclosure under section 21 (Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means) of the FOIA, as explained below:

The requested information is captured in OS Master Map Topography layer, which is one of our premium products and/or Open Greenspace which is a freely available products. You can obtain the requested information by contacting one of our licenced partners and where appropriate paying the relevant fee; section 21(2)(a) states that information may be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment.

Under the duty to provide information and assistance in accordance with section 16 of the FOIA, all our Partners and their details are listed on our website on our Find a Business Partner page.