Land and properties owned by Lincolnshire County Council - Find a freedom of information request

1. The estimated total number of acres of land that you own.

2. The estimated total number of acres that you own which are not in operational use.

3. The annual spending on managing and maintaining your property that was not in operational use in the financial year 2022/23 - including costs for security, gardening, repairs and insurance. Please provide a breakdown.

4. The number of golf courses you currently own.

5. The number of farms you currently own.

6. The number of commercial buildings you own. If possible please provide a breakdown by category - such as shops, offices, restaurants, pubs, hotels.

7. The number of empty homes you currently own.

8. The number of empty buildings you currently own that are not homes.

Please provide a copy of your asset register.

1. 16,348.496 acres of farmland - due to the wording of the question we have assumed farmland is of interest rather than land around property.

2. 89.709 acres (again farm).

3. For farms £18,566.83 of security and £2,653.21 of repairs and maintenance. For sites that are not farms it will take longer to collate this information.

4. None.

5. 150 holdings.

6.One - Shops.

7. Zero. Two farm houses. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) do not have a residential portfolio as this is the responsibility of the District/City Councils. LCC do own a small number of homes purchased to facilitate future highway development. These are occupied. Also homes for operational firefighters which may be empty in the short term between occupants.

8. 3. 

Land and building assets can be found here: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/land-and-building-assets/resource/7620434d-87bc-468e-a951-9942f74ff098