Waste and recycling collection dates

The request was refused by Glasgow City Council.

Dear Glasgow City Council,

Please provide the following data, under FOI:

1) Waste and recycling schedules for all properties, organised by address and postcode. Please include day of the week and collection frequency (weekly, fortnightly etc) for each service type. I request that all data is provided in CSV format, ideally with separate columns for the different parts of the address. A link to a web service does not meet my requirements, though the source data for a web service may. Please include the UPRN for each property if held. This is now permitted by the AddressBase licence. See https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/n... for details.
For an example of a suitable spreadsheet, see here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
Variants are acceptable if they contain the requested data. Separate spreadsheets for each waste or recycling type are also fine.
2) For collections that are not weekly, details of how to work out which week a collection will be. For example, if a "Week 1/week 2" system is used, then please provide an example of a date in week 1 and a date in week 2. For example "2nd January 2017 was in Recycling Week 1"
3) Details of all alterations to regular schedules for bank holidays etc. Please provide this for all future dates in 2017 and 2018. For example, see this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
4) Details of any planned changes to these schedules.

Please also treat this as a request for re-use of the dataset under RPSI. Please can you grant permission for reuse, ideally under the Open Government Licence. My planned use is to transform the data into a standard format, and aggregate it with the data from other authorities. I will then release it under an open licence to enable the development of useful services to encourage recycling, such as chatbots and voice tools to find upcoming recycling days.

Yours faithfully,

Matt Kane

Customer Care Centre, Glasgow City Council

New Service Request was submitted: RQST00006245640
You can simply reply to this Email, and your reply
will automatically be associated with this Service Request

show quoted sections

FOI_CCT, Glasgow City Council

1 Attachment

 

 

Please see attached response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

 

FOI Team

Chief Executive’s Department

Glasgow City Council

 

 

 

Glasgow - UK Council of the Year 2015
Disclaimer:
This email is from Glasgow City Council or one of its Arm’s Length
Organisations (ALEOs). Views expressed in this message do not necessarily
reflect those of the council, or ALEO, who will not necessarily be bound
by its contents. If you are not the intended recipient of this email (and
any attachment), please inform the sender by return email and destroy all
copies. Unauthorised access, use, disclosure, storage or copying is not
permitted. Please be aware that communication by internet email is not
secure as messages can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore,
we strongly advise you not to email any information, which if disclosed to
someone else, would be likely to cause you distress. If you have an
enquiry of this nature then please write to us using the postal system. If
you chose to email this information to us there can be no guarantee of
privacy. Any email including its content may be monitored and used by the
council, or ALEO, for reasons of security and for monitoring internal
compliance with the office policy on staff use. Email monitoring or
blocking software may also be used. Please be aware that you have a
responsibility to make sure that any email you write or forward is within
the bounds of the law. Glasgow City Council, or ALEOs, cannot guarantee
that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been
intercepted and amended. You should perform your own virus checks.

Dear Glasgow City Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts EIR reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Glasgow City Council's handling of my request 'Waste and recycling collection dates'.

I do not believe that the fees have been correctly estimated. The data is searchable by address on the council website, which means that it is in a database that can be easily queried. Exporting from the database should take minutes at most, and all database systems are able to export as CSV. I cannot see how an estimate of seven hours can be justified, but perhaps if more detail is provided I could refine the request to reduce the amount of work required.

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...

Yours faithfully,

Matt Kane

Customer Care Centre, Glasgow City Council

New Service Request was submitted: RQST00006268730
You can simply reply to this Email, and your reply
will automatically be associated with this Service Request

FOI Reviews, Glasgow City Council

1 Attachment

Dear Mr Kane

 

I refer to your request for a formal review of the decision made in
connection with your Freedom of Information Request and attach herewith
acknowledgement letter for your information.

 

Regards

 

FOI Review Team

Glasgow City Council

[1]www.glasgow.gov.uk

 

 

 

Glasgow - UK Council of the Year 2015
Disclaimer:
This email is from Glasgow City Council or one of its Arm’s Length
Organisations (ALEOs). Views expressed in this message do not necessarily
reflect those of the council, or ALEO, who will not necessarily be bound
by its contents. If you are not the intended recipient of this email (and
any attachment), please inform the sender by return email and destroy all
copies. Unauthorised access, use, disclosure, storage or copying is not
permitted. Please be aware that communication by internet email is not
secure as messages can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore,
we strongly advise you not to email any information, which if disclosed to
someone else, would be likely to cause you distress. If you have an
enquiry of this nature then please write to us using the postal system. If
you chose to email this information to us there can be no guarantee of
privacy. Any email including its content may be monitored and used by the
council, or ALEO, for reasons of security and for monitoring internal
compliance with the office policy on staff use. Email monitoring or
blocking software may also be used. Please be aware that you have a
responsibility to make sure that any email you write or forward is within
the bounds of the law. Glasgow City Council, or ALEOs, cannot guarantee
that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been
intercepted and amended. You should perform your own virus checks.

References

Visible links
1. http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/

FOI Reviews, Glasgow City Council

1 Attachment

Dear Mr Kane

 

On behalf of Carole Forrest, Director of Governance and Solicitor to the
Council, please find attached Glasgow City Council's response to your
request for review of your information request.

 

Regards

 

 

FOI Review Team

Glasgow City Council

[1]www.glasgow.gov.uk

 

 

Glasgow - UK Council of the Year 2015
Disclaimer:
This email is from Glasgow City Council or one of its Arm’s Length
Organisations (ALEOs). Views expressed in this message do not necessarily
reflect those of the council, or ALEO, who will not necessarily be bound
by its contents. If you are not the intended recipient of this email (and
any attachment), please inform the sender by return email and destroy all
copies. Unauthorised access, use, disclosure, storage or copying is not
permitted. Please be aware that communication by internet email is not
secure as messages can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore,
we strongly advise you not to email any information, which if disclosed to
someone else, would be likely to cause you distress. If you have an
enquiry of this nature then please write to us using the postal system. If
you chose to email this information to us there can be no guarantee of
privacy. Any email including its content may be monitored and used by the
council, or ALEO, for reasons of security and for monitoring internal
compliance with the office policy on staff use. Email monitoring or
blocking software may also be used. Please be aware that you have a
responsibility to make sure that any email you write or forward is within
the bounds of the law. Glasgow City Council, or ALEOs, cannot guarantee
that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been
intercepted and amended. You should perform your own virus checks.

References

Visible links
1. blocked::www.glasgow.gov.uk
file:///tmp/www.glasgow.gov.uk