FOI003564 FOI Highways

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and, so far as any part of it is environmental information, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

I am asking for the council's street lighting asset inventory: the register of lighting columns and other lighting units for which the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is the highway authority.

Please supply the current inventory as a data export containing, for each lighting unit, whichever of these three things the council holds:

1. The location, as easting and northing or as latitude and longitude. Please state which, and state the coordinate system used (for example OSGB36 / EPSG:27700, or WGS84 / EPSG:4326).

2. The asset type or unit type. I ask for this only so that lighting columns can be told apart from illuminated bollards, illuminated signs, beacons and feeder pillars, which are commonly held in the same register. Please do not filter these out for me. The type column is all I need.

3. The switching or control regime for each unit: whether it burns all night, is part-night, or is dimmed, and, where the council holds them, the actual switch-off and switch-on times.

That is the whole request. I am not asking for wattage, lamp type, mounting height, asset references, street names or any other attribute, and there is no need to remove them if they happen to sit in the same export. I simply do not need them produced.

On point 3, if the council does not hold a switching regime against individual assets but does operate a part-night or dimming policy, please instead supply:

(a) the current policy document or committee report setting out the switch-off and switch-on times; and
(b) a description of which roads or areas are covered by it, and which are excluded from it. I understand traffic routes and some main roads are commonly exempt.

FORM OF THE RESPONSE

Under section 11(1)(a) and section 11(1A) of the Act, and regulation 6(1) of the EIR, I would like to receive this information in electronic, machine-readable form: CSV, GeoJSON or shapefile. A copy of an existing export is entirely sufficient, so please do not produce anything bespoke. A PDF, or a map image, would not meet the request.

RE-USE

This request is for a dataset within the meaning of section 11(5) of the Act. Where the dataset is a relevant copyright work and the council is required to communicate it, section 11A requires that it be made available for re-use under the terms of a specified licence. In line with the section 45 Code of Practice on datasets, I ask that it be licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

RELATED RE-USE REQUEST

Please also treat this as a related request that the information be made available for re-use under the Open Government Licence v3.0, in accordance with the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

I ask because disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations gives a right of access rather than a right of re-use, and I would rather establish the licensing position alongside the disclosure than afterwards. My intended use is commercial, which the Open Government Licence permits.