Waste and recycling collection dates

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Dear North Warwickshire Borough Council,

Please provide the following data, under FOI:

1) Waste and recycling schedules for all properties, organised by address and postcode. If the information is not kept at the level of individual properties, please provide the list at street level, ideally including the USRN. 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, if available. 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 confirm that 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

FOI_Requests, North Warwickshire Borough Council

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Dear Matt, further to your information request received on the 24 July 2017. Please see attached email showing a spreadsheet file with a listing of the North Warwickshire street waste and recycling schedules. The Council does not hold USRN for each street. The collections are on a fortnightly basis. Also attached are calendars showing the collections dates for each type of collection. Bank holiday collections are made in line with the regular collections except for the Christmas period. The schedules for the Christmas period are adapted depending upon which calendar days the bank holidays fall on. There are no current planned changes to the schedules however some minor changes may be considered as part of a service review due for consideration by the Community and Environment Board in September.
The Council is happy that you can re-use the information supplied under the Open Government Licence.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/o...

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Yours sincerely Robert Beggs

Robert Beggs
Policy Support Manager
Policy Support
North Warwickshire Borough Council
Telephone 01827 719238
Email [email address]

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Hi Robert,
That's perfect. Thanks for your help.

Matt