FOI003452 EIR Planning Policy/Trees/Conservation

Short Description
GIS Data for Planning Designations
Reference number
FOI003452
Date
12/08/2026
Request

I am requesting the following environmental information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004:
1.    The latest GIS/vector data for Conservation Areas.
2.    The latest GIS/vector data for Article 4 Directions.
3.    The latest GIS/vector data for Tree Preservation Orders, including individual trees, groups, areas and woodlands where held.
I am happy to receive the data in any common machine-readable GIS format, such as Ge-oPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, File Geodatabase or GML.
I request that you include the existing attribute information necessary to identify and interpret each spatial feature, including the identifiers or references needed to link each feature to the rel-evant Conservation Area designation, Article 4 Direction or Tree Preservation Order. For example:
•    Conservation Area name/reference;
•    Article 4 Direction name/reference;
•    TPO reference and individual item reference (e.g. T1, G1, A1 or W1);
•    any other existing identifier or reference needed to link the feature to the relevant record.
Where the relationship is held in a separate table or lookup rather than within the spatial layer it-self, please also provide that information.
I am requesting the information as held. I am not asking the Council to verify or correct. If the in-formation is incomplete or subject to known accuracy limitations, I am happy to receive it with appropriate warning notes.
Under reg 6 EIR, I request that the information be made available in a machine-readable vector GIS format. A PDF, image or view-only interactive web map would not meet this format request. A GIS API or feature service is acceptable where it allows the requested vector geometries and as-sociated attribute data to be retrieved programmatically or in bulk.
If any part of the information is withheld, please identify the relevant EIR exception relied upon. If a charge is levied, please provide the basis and calculation of the charge under reg 8 before proceeding.