Waste and recycling delivery days

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Dear Mansfield District 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. 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 schedules that are not weekly, details of how to work out which week a collection will fall. 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 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

K.Winfield,

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Dear Mr Kane,

Please find attached letter acknowledging receipt of your request for Mansfield District Council

Regards

Kathryn Winfield
Information Officer (Part time) Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Ashfield District Council & Mansfield District Council Shared Legal Services
Urban Road
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Nottingham
NG17 8DA
01623 457329
[email address]

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K.Winfield,

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Dear Mr Kane,

Please find attached a reply to your request from Mansfield District Council

Regards

Kathryn Winfield
Information Officer (Part time) Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Ashfield District Council & Mansfield District Council Shared Legal Services
Urban Road
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Nottingham
NG17 8DA
01623 457329
[email address]

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Hello Kathryn,
Thank you for your reply. I have no issue with the supplied information, which meets my requirements. However the licence is problematic. You have stated that I may only use it for my own personal, non-commercial research purposes, and that further use or distribution requires permission. However my project will involve transforming the data from all authorities into a standard, reusable format and releasing it under an open licence. Your supplied licence does not permit that. My enquiry included a request for re-use under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations, which states that data should be released under an open licence. The recommendation is to use the Open Government Licence. As you may be aware, the ICO has recently ruled in the Cambridgeshire case that restrictions should not be placed on "downstream" use. In general, the default should be to use the Open Government Licence or similar, unless there are compelling reasons to use another licence. My apologies if you know this all already.

Can you please release it under the OGL, and if you cannot then please treat this as a request for internal review under the RPSI regulations.

Best regards,

Matt

K.Winfield,

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Dear Mr Kane,

Please find attached an amended reply from Mansfield District Council

Regards

Kathryn Winfield
Information Officer (Part time) Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Ashfield District Council & Mansfield District Council Shared Legal Services
Urban Road
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Nottingham
NG17 8DA
01623 457329
[email address]

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Thank you, that's great. Much appreciated.

Regards,

Matt