GIS polygon map of your council's landholdings - Find a freedom of information request

1. A GIS polygon map of your council's landholdings, preferably in Shapefile format. (Please note this request is for a polygon map showing property extents, and not simply a map showing the point locations of council properties).

There is a clear public interest in disclosing this information, given it relates to how councils use public money; and the local government transparency code states that "Local authorities must publish details of all land and building assets".

This information is not reasonably accessible by other means: the Land Registry charges £3.00 for every land title register and every title plan, and with councils owning potentially thousands of land titles, the cost barriers to ordinary citizens viewing such information via this means is prohibitively high.

Nor is there any data licensing reason why a council should withhold this information. In 2020, Ordnance Survey and Land Registry announced they were relaxing data licensing conditions so that property extents (Index INSPIRE Polygons) can be freely shared by councils under Open Government Licence (OGL) terms. Some councils, such as Sheffield Council, now regularly publish updated polygon maps of their landholdings online as a matter of course.

1. A county map showing all Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) interests is attached. It cannot provide an Ordnance Survey layer (i.e. roads) behind this as the file size is too large to be able to save. The key is as follows: Red is LCC-owned, blue is leasehold, yellow is academy-owned and purple is Diocese-owned.

A list of LCC assets is published on the LCC website: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/land-and-building-assets/resource/7620434d-87bc-468e-a951-9942f74ff098