It is good they provide a search facility where one can lookup the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) for a premise, as well as check where located.

I could not find some flats at first if don’t match way record held. The search is not as good as could be as does not seem to search all fields in the record, and the result does not display all the fields I assume recorded from BS7666 spec, I am particularity interest in the locality, as opposed to just the town. But at least it is some access to these records.

The list shows that the waiting lists are not that big in many places, where vacant garages even exceed those on waiting list, and most of those on the waiting list only want particular garages.
There is a disabled rate of 59.65 pounds a quarter and then the lowest normal rate £99.45 which had gone up several times in past couple of years after many years that was stable at £75

I am not surprised they can not give me admin costs as these merged in with general department admin, and to break down would be more admin overhead and difficult to get true reflection of shared costs.

But I think it shows that council housing department are getting a good income from garages, which given the utility of garages is due to housing around them seems fair enough.

I personally think they should remove rule that need to be used for cars, and invest in much more secure doors.

Edinburgh Garages 05/07/11 (PDF)

It is pity information is in form of a pdf not in csv or actual spreadsheet so I could more easily work out percentages.

here is extract from their reply:

Thank you for your request for information which has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Unfortunately, the Council is able to meet only part of your request, namely the information on the attached spreadsheet (sic). A detailed explanation of this is as follows;

Appendix A
Garage statistics – this includes the quarterly charge, the number of garages per location, the number of occupied and unoccupied garages and of those unoccupied garages which are not lettable.

Appendix B
The income and repairs financial information currently available.

Appendix C
A full list of all unoccupied and unlettable garages.

The garage charge is set annually and is agreed by the Housing & Regeneration Management Team prior to going to Council committee for approval

The Council does not hold the following items of information which you requested.

- Reason why the garages cannot be let
- Time taken to let out a garage
- Number of days in any given year the garages are occupied
- Cost of administering garages (although cost of garage repairs has been supplied)
- Future plans for garages

Please note that this letter constitutes a formal refusal notice under section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

GeoPlace™ – a government initiative for national addressing

New agreement set to create a single address database
LGA media release – 3 December 2010
FAQ (pdf)
GeoPlace™ Q&As [lga.gov.uk]

New national ‘address book’ to be free to emergency services [communities.gov.uk]

The Register
UK.gov: One address-location database to rule them all
Mighty GeoPlace to emblobbenate private & public data

Although this move does not free up the data, it removes some obstacles on
the way to achieving that, as well as being worth while for society in it’s
own right with data of Ordnance Survey’s Address Layer 2 coming together with
the local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer .
Do I feel a ‘Free the UPRN’ effort in mould of the ‘Free the Postcode’ effort taking shape
as Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) become more used?

More links:
UK Location Council Welcomes Geoplace

GeoPlace Q&As [www.nlpg.org.uk]

Links to related information & past debate around the web:

Pitch for Utilities to use NLPG [aligned-assets.co.uk]

post-office-and-os-relax-copyright-and-licences-uk-address-and-coordinate-data [data.gov.uk]

national-land-and-property-gazetteer-nlpg [data.gov.uk]

unlocking-service: National Street Gazetteer [opsi.gov.uk]

unlocking-service: NLPG [opsi.gov.uk]

Is-the-campaign-won? What-do-you-think? [freeourdata.org.uk]

Street Naming & Numbering (local authorities web search)

OpenAddress.org

BBC: Postcode rebels picket Royal Mail’s headquarters

Lookup location by Postcode:

http://www.geopostcode.org.uk/
http://ukgeocode.maxmanders.co.uk/

Mapit also includes Lower Super Output Areas which the Indices of Multiple Deprivation are indexed against as well as census data.
http://mapit.mysociety.org/

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The Forth Quarter park still is fenced off from road at West Shore Road where it ends in path to nowhere. [Update 2011: now ForthQuarter park open on to West Shore Road]

But a footpath link through new housing has been opened off Marine Drive.

They have restarted work on the housing there including a block that I liked the look of when was just concrete structure set against the trees.

I saw last week the swan with 2 grey fluffy babies swans, on the Water of Leith.

I quite often see one of at least 2 Grey Herons at various places on the Water of Leith.

Photo of how looked before:

Loop in path at start of cycle path near Roseburn, which has since been altered to allow tram works.

Guildford Cathedral

http://opengeodata.org/surrey-county-air-survey