Secondary school catchment/designated transport areas in Lincolnshire. - Find a freedom of information request

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act regarding secondary school catchment/designated transport areas in Lincolnshire.

I request these data in the form of a table of street names/postcodes associated with each secondary school (csv or excel), or a file containing the catchment/designated transport map shapes in any GIS vector file format (see below for details).

My preference would be to receive a GIS compatible file, that would most easily feed into my research.

By GIS vector file format, I mean a file which contains the coordinates describing the shape of the catchment area and can be used in GIS software.

Examples of these formats would include (but are not limited to): KML, GML, MapInfo TAB, GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefile, Spatialite. I am happy to receive map files in any recognised vector format.

These data are available, used here (appendix G): School and college transport policy (lincolnshire.gov.uk) and here for the grammar schools: http://grammarschools.lincs.sch.uk/schools/. In addition, these data would be used to rank pupils in school admissions.

I request information to the underlying data for a research project at the University of Bristol that will explore the relationship between school admissions priorities and equity in access to "good" schools.

Please see this example for a similar successful FOI request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/school_catchment_area_coordinate

Please also note that some other Local Authorities make these data publicly available, like Hampshire, Nottingham, and York. 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

Requested GIS information for Grammar schools is attached

This data is available, used here (appendix G): School and college transport policy (lincolnshire.gov.uk) and here for the grammar schools:

http://grammarschools.lincs.sch.uk/schools/.

In addition, this data would be used to rank pupils in school admissions.

LCC can confirm that the following schools use 'Designated Transport Area (DTA)' as part of their admission criteria

:- Alford Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Horncastle Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Lincoln Castle Academy

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

Louth King Edward VI Grammar School

Market Rasen De Aston School

Skegness Grammar School

Spalding Grammar School

There are also 3 other secondary schools that use a 'catchment area' based on a radius of the school.

These are :-

Caistor Grammar School

Gainsborough Queen Elizabeth's High School

Welton William Farr Church of England School 

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and these can be provided.