Request for school catchment boundaries as GIS data (EIR 2004)
Case reference FOI2026/02466
Received 12 October 2026
Published 21 October 2026
Request
Response
Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please send me the current school catchment (priority, designated or normal) area boundaries for Herefordshire, for admission in September 2027, as GIS data (Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, ideally in British National Grid or WGS84), with the name and DfE number (URN or LAESTAB) of the school each area belongs to.
I am asking because the boundaries are currently published only as an online map or address lookup, which cannot be reused accurately. If a file is already held for the council's own map viewer, that will do. If any area is not held digitally, please say which.
Please tell me the licence the data is supplied under.
Answer:
The data can only be shared with you in the format requested via certain data licensing agreements that cover its re-use. Information provided under FOI / EIR is essentially disclosed to the world at large not just to the person who requested it, and as such we are not able to disclose this information under this legislation, because everyone’s re-use
needs would be different and we would not be able to guarantee compliance with the licensing conditions.
However, if you contact GISmapping@hoopleltd.co.uk and request this information, providing full details of the users of the data and the purpose of use, they will be able to agree with you the correct licensing agreement and provide data under the terms of that agreement.
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