FOI 1123-2024/25 Surveying & Geospatial Activity

Request
Q1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?
Q2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?
Q3. What are your organisation’s key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?
Q4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets
Q5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?
Q6. If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration
Q7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?
Q8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months
Q9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers—through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?
Q10. Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?
Q11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through
Q12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?
Q13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?
Q14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

Decision
I wish to advise you that your request does not meet the criteria for a valid FOI request.

In order for a request to be valid under Section 8(1)(c) of the Freedom of Information Act, the request must ‘clearly describe the information being sought’, and refer to ‘records capable of recovery in any form’. This can be ‘recorded information held in written records, typed, handwritten, emails etc’. The majority of your request, in its current form, asks for information which would require an opinion or judgement, and not that of recorded information held by North Yorkshire Police. For example, it is not possible for North Yorkshire Police to confirm, based on information held, the answer to What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?

If you wish to revise your request for information to that which is held by North Yorkshire Police then we can reconsider your request accordingly. The following link may be of assistance if you wish to submit a further request: How to access information from a public body | ICO

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