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Open data

Open data is information held by the government and local councils which is freely available for use and re-use by the public. The aim is to:

• Make all data we hold available online (unless private or sensitive)
• Encourage residents, businesses and anyone else with an interest to use our data to develop applications
• Increase transparency and accountability

What are the licence conditions?

You can use this data in a wide variety of applications and we licence in accordance with the same licence as the government's data website http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions (This link will open in a new window). All the data is available under the UK Open Government licence (This link will open in a new window) which allows sharing and reuse for commercial purposes. Please follow the data.gov.uk code of conduct (This link will open in a new window) on usage. The data can be used with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. (This link will open in a new window)

A list of councils which have open data is published on the Openly Local (This link will open in a new window) and the data.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window) websites.

Data we currently make available

RSS format

• News (RSS)
• Events (RSS)
• Jobs (RSS) (This link will open in a new window)

CSV and PDF formats

General information

• Car parks (CSV)
• Grants to local bodies (CSV) 
• Parks, playgrounds and open spaces (CSV)
• Toilets (CSV)
• Website statistics (CSV) and Website statistics (pdf)

Council tax and spending

• Council spending
• Council tax bands 2013-2014 (csv) and Council tax bands 2013-2014 (pdf)
• Council tax bands 2012-2013 (csv) and Council tax bands 2012-2013 (pdf)
• Council Tax bands 2011-2012 (CSV) and Council tax bands 2011-2012 (pdf)
• Council tax bands 2010-2011 (CSV) and Council tax bands 2010-2011 (pdf)

Councillors

• Councillors details 2013-14 (CSV)
• Councillors expenses 2011-12 (CSV) and Councillors expenses 2011-12 (pdf)
• Councillors expenses 2010-2011 CSV)
• Councillors expenses 2009-2010 (CSV) and Councillors allowances 2009-2010 (pdf) (This link will open in a new window)
• Councillors expenses 2008-2009 (CSV) and Councillors allowances 2008-2009 (pdf) (This link will open in a new window)

Elections

District

• District elections results 2012
• District Elections 2012 in RDF/XML format
• District Elections 2011 results
• District Elections 2011 in RDF/XML format
• District election results 2011 (pdf)
• District Elections results 2010
• District Elections results 2010 in RDF/XML format

Parish

• Parish election results 2012
• Parish Elections 2012 in RDF/XML format
• Parish Elections 2011 results
• Parish Elections 2011 in RDF/XML format
• Parish election results 2011 (pdf)

County

• Surrey County Council results 2009
• Surrey County Council results 2009 in RDF/XML format

General

• General Election 2010 results
• General Election 2010 results in RDF/XML format

Social media

• Follow us on Twitter (This link will open in a new window)
• View our photos on Flickr (This link will open in a new window)

Other information

Some of this information, while not presented in open data format, is required under the DCLG Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency.

• Council agendas and minutes (This link will open in a new window)
• Council constitution
• Council senior management job descriptions
• Council pay and staffing policies
• Council structure charts
• Corporate information - including performance indicators, policies
• Census information for Surrey 2011 (This link will open in a new window)
• 2001 Census (pdf)
• Financial information - including budgets, financial plans and statements
• Library of council documents
• List of main council publications
• Selling to Tandridge District Council
• Tandridge District Council Asset Register

You can also see what else we publish in our Publication Scheme and make your own requests to see data under the Freedom of Information Act.

Other useful applications

• On Surrey-i (This link will open in a new window) you can find information about the whole of Surrey and its residents from county to village level, in charts, tables and maps.
• On data.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window) you can search all the available applications that have already been shared.
• On the Office of National Statistics (This link will open in a new window) website you can access detailed statistics about an area.

Data formats used

We use the following data formats on this website

• CSV - Comma separated values
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication
• PDF - Portable document format
• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• XML - Extensible Markup Language

For further information please contact Customer Services on 01883 722000 or e-mail customerservices@tandridge.gov.uk

Or write to us at:
Tandridge District Council
8 Station Road East
Oxted RH8 0BT

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