Land and Property Assets of Rochdale Borough Council, Excluding Housing and Highways

A dataset of land and property assets where Rochdale Borough Council holds an ownership or occupational interest. Council housing stock and roads or highway infrastructure are explicitly excluded. The data is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Mapping public land holdings based on geospatial boundaries mentioned in the description
• Analyzing asset portfolios for local government finance based on ownership and occupational interests
• Assessing third-party interests like tenancies and leases on public property as described
• Planning land use by identifying council-owned or occupied parcels, excluding housing and highways

Strengths

• Explicitly defines scope by excluding council housing and highway infrastructure, clarifying data boundaries.
• Provides geospatial representation via WMS format, suggesting map-ready data.
• Includes notes on data caveats such as occupational versus legal boundaries and third-party interests.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Rochdale Borough Council

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:48.646546; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rochdale Borough, United Kingdom