Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificate Register

Dear Sir or Madam,

https://www.ndepcregister.com/

The Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificate Register is only
available to search by RRN. This is not a very accessible way to
gain access to data held in a public register.

Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please
provide:

1) a "data dump" of the information stored in the Register's
underlying database.

2) a list of all data fields and their definitions for this
database

The information in this database is held by Landmark Information
Group on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local
Government, so for the purposes of the EIRs is held by DCLG.

Given that the underlying information being requested from this
Register effectively relates to CO2 emissions, I'd like to bring to
your attention EIR Regulation 12(9):

"To the extent that the environmental information to be disclosed
relates to information on emissions, a public authority shall not
be entitled to refuse to disclose that information under an
exception referred to in paragraphs (5)(d) to (g)."

3) I would also like to make a separate request for Display Energy
Certificate data (which I understand is also stored in a public
Register), so would appreciate any advice and assistance you can
provide about accessing this data. If this data is readily
available to be combined with (1) and (2) above, please go ahead
and provide the data.

I have significant programming experience in databases and data
analysis, so can accommodate a wide range of file transfer
mechanisms, or data-exchange formats. Please contact me if you want
to agree how the requested information should be provided.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Skene

Dear Phil Beschizza,

Ref - 090224 EIR E0002970 Mr Skene.pdf

Many thanks for your mail of 24 February and apologies for the
delay in replying.

You said the following:

"The Register Operator will have to extract the data from the
Register, design and write the query, extract the information and
quality assure the results.
The data will also have to be converted into a readable form. For
this reason, the cost for
providing this data is likely to exceed the £600 limit. I will let
you have a more accurate figure
in due course."

As I mentioned in my initial email, given my IT experience in
programming databases and data analysis, you do not necessarily
need to provide the data in a "readable" form - a simple Database
Export may be quicker, and many enterprise-strength databases
provide tools to do this. In addition you don't need to quality
assure all entries!

I'd appreciate it very much if, when you carry out your more
accurate estimate of costs, you could provide a detailed breakdown
of these so we can agree whether all the activities proposed are
necessary in order to provide the data requested.

Kind regards,

Alex Skene