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Surveying and geospatial activity

Request date
19 February 2025

Outcome
Information not held

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Request

  1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?
  2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?
  3. What are your organisation's key strategic objectives for the next 12-24months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?
  4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets
  5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?
  6. 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
  7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?
  8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months
  9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?
  10. 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?
  11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through
  12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?
  13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?
  14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR).

Firstly, it should be noted that the EIR gives individuals the right to request only recorded information held by public authorities, such as the Gambling Commission. It does not provide an avenue for individuals to gain views or opinions of public authorities or information not held at the time the request is made.

The Gambling Commission responses to your enquiries are as follows:

  1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?

Information not held

  1. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?

Information not held

  1. What are your organisation's key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?

The Gambling Commissions published Business plan and budget 2024 to 2025 details the milestones we plan to complete within the business plan 2024 to 2025. Surveying and geospatial does not feature in our business plans or strategic objectives.

  1. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets

Information not held

  1. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?

No

  1. 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

N/A

  1. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?

None

  1. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months

Information not held

  1. How do you engage with potential new suppliers through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?

Please refer to our website - Procurement: Supplying to the Gambling Commission

  1. 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?

Information not held

  1. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through

Information not held

  1. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?

No

  1. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?

No

  1. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

Information not held

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request, you are entitled to an internal review of our decision under regulation 11 of the EIR. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in a new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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