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Who owns England? Follow Following. You can complain by requesting an internal review. Try opening the logs in a new window. Could you please provide me, under environmental information request rules, a copy of the following information in a GIS compatible format such as Arcgis compatible shape file or Google Earth compatible. I raise particularly at this point that in any assessment of public interest in the release of such information, I would strongly argue that access to information under points that release of information pertaining to land that they are either entitled to access or forbidden to enter for safety reasons would carry an obvious public benefit.
Your request does not fall within the remit of the Environmental Information Regulations ". I contend that this clearly includes the ownership of property by the ministry of defence, given the fact that all such land: i Is subject to the policies and administrative measures laid out in Joint Service Protocols ii Is subject to the environmental management polices in place within the Ministry of Defence iii will be subject to activities an uses, including military training, which are likely to affect the physical nature of the land, water or biodiversity of that land, or which may otherwise effect the nature of the land or factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment as a result of that use.
Additional attention is drawn to Information Commissioners Guidance that property search data held by local authorities falls within EIR regulations. I would contend that such also applies here quite specifically in my request for information referring to both military firing ranges and publically accessible areas clearly has a direct relevance to health and safety issues, and as such falls within EIR regulations. As I stated in my original letter, release of information pertaining to land that the public are either entitled to accessor recreational purposes or forbidden to enter for safety reasons due to military training or live firing would clearly falls within the EIR regulations definition of the state of human health and safety.
Regards the additional comments in your letter under section 16 advice that the MOD does not hold such data in a GIS compatible format - I wish to request review of this advice, as I believe this to be incorrect - in fact there is an example of Ministry of Defence boundary data submitted to Surrey Country Council under S31 6 of the highways act:.
It is notable that the filename title published on these maps suggests that the maps have been created as. This along with the very existence of a geospatial services department suggests that MOD boundary data and MOD public access and range area boundaries are in fact held in a GIS compatible format.
It also suggests to me that the costs estimate indicated of ten days work to collate and format the requested data is unrealistic, as these files and mappings show that boundary data clearly is already held in a GIS compatible format. Spatial data is any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area. Spatial data is often referred to as geospatial data or geographic information.
As such there is an additional duty fo the MOD to publish any data held under these regulations. The Department's target for completing internal reviews is 20 working days and we therefore aim to complete the review and respond to you by 1 July While we are working hard to achieve this, in the interests of providing you with a more realistic indication of when you should expect a response, we should advise that the majority are currently taking between 20 and 40 working days to complete.
Rights Held — land which is held on a most usually short term and contractual basis or through grants for a specific purpose. MOD holds a lot of land in this way because it is a more cost effective and flexible way to meet the changing operational requirements for defence.
In total, this is about 1. This is a decrease of 88, hectares over the past year. Alt text: a graph showing the type of holding percentage split for freehold, leasehold and rights held. Chart 1 shows that just over two thirds , hectares of the land is owned either freehold or leasehold , which is 7, hectares more than the figure reported at 1 April On 1 April , the MOD held a further , hectares through legal rights, which is 95, hectares less than the figure reported at 1 April Following budget delegation in , ownership of the training estate transferred from the Centre to the Army, this has resulted in the Army becoming the parent service area with the largest land holding.
As shown in Chart 2, the Army owned or had rights over the largest area, at , hectares Alt text: a graph showing the parent service area percentage split for Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, the centre and other. On 1 April , the majority of land holdings were in England. The England land holdings were , hectares The Scotland land holdings have decreased by 88, hectares since As of 1 April , the Scotland land holdings stood at 65, hectares Nearly all of this reduction is explained by a restructure of the land management agreement with land used for training purposes by military personnel.
The Wales land holdings was 23, hectares, a decrease of hectares since 6. Northern Ireland has remained the same, accounting for 0. Chart 4 below shows that on 1 April training areas and ranges occupy the largest area, at , hectares Training areas and ranges also make up Research and development occupy 35, hectares This increase is a result of a new agreement and improved data quality.
Other types of use have stayed broadly the same. Alt text: a graph showing the type of use percentage split for airfields, training area and ranges, barracks and camps, storage and supply depots, research and development, and other. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation DIO is the estate expert for defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.
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