FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4067
You asked
Please supply the most up-to-date surface area in square metres of the land inside the boundaries of the City of Plymouth for each of the primary land functions listed below with all the listed filters applied.
The Primary Function categories (reported in square metres of land for each):
'Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces'
'Amenity - Residential Or Business'
'Private Garden'
'Public Park Or Garden'
Filtered down to just the portion of those land areas with secondary functions of:
Null
'Private Garden'
Filtered down further to just the portion of land areas with Primary Forms of:
Null
'Open Semi-Natural'
'Multi Surface'
Filtered down still further to just the portion of land areas with Secondary Forms of:
- Null
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, we do not hold the specific information you have requested. However, you can obtain some of the data you request from our published work as outlined below.
Allotments
We published figures for residential gardens, allotments and community growing spaces and public parks or gardens in 2019 which are available in our Urban extent dataset.
This uses the ONS defined Built up Areas boundaries.
To estimate an "urban" area for natural capital purposes, "built up areas" were converted into an "urban extent", as described in our Experimental urban extent for UK.
While the other datasets in the 2019 release use local authority boundaries in other datasets, the allotments figure is an approximation based on a slightly different boundary.
Public Parks and Gardens
We have published estimates for areas of public parks and gardens.
This includes a range of geographical boundaries including local authority district and middle-layer and lower- super output areas (MSOA and LSOA).
Private Gardens
We have published estimates of "private outdoor space" for geographies including local authority district and MSOA in our Access to gardens and public green space in Great Britain dataset.
This uses the Ordnance Survey's MasterMap, which has outdoor spaces assigned to buildings. These can include a carpark or refuse area, there is currently no way to determine whether such spaces are private gardens.
Other categories
While we do not hold data for semi-natural, multi-surface or amenity spaces, we would be happy to share approaches to these with you using open data held by other organisations. Please contact us at natural.capital.team@ons.gov.uk.