A dataset providing the locations of cooling towers. This is a combined list managed and enforced by Leeds City Council and the Health & Safety Executive. Cooling towers are part of a system for providing air conditioning or refrigeration on a large scale. There is a heat exchanger in the tower to remove heat which aids cooling. They are usually placed on the top of buildings. The problem with cooling towers is that they produce warm w...

This dataset contains information about collections of both council tax and non-domestic rates during the financial year for Leeds. For council tax, data is provided on the amounts collected, these amounts as a proportion of the total amount collectable, amounts written off (deemed to be uncollectable) and arrears (outstanding amounts that the authority is still trying to collect). For non-domestic rates charged to businesses, data is...

A dataset providing a link to Ordnance Survey open data products. These tools are available to download free of charge under an open government licence. The tools are: OS Open Map - local (beta) a detailed, street level, vector mapping open data product. OS Open names - definitive place names, road numbers and post codes in Great Britain.  OS Open rivers (beta) - a high level view of the water network, with generalised geometry an...

The dataset comprises a list of all the flood warden groups in the Yorkshire Area of the Environment Agency – essentially – North, East, West and South Yorkshire plus Hull and a small area of Lancashire. The dataset includes the Warden Group name and the Postcode Sector of the lead warden who is responsible for that group and will live in the risk area. An example flood plan is also included to show the key actions which the groups unde...

A dataset highlighting properties affected by the recent flooding in the Leeds region broken down by postcode sector. Please note Properties described as flats may have partially flooded but each property would be logged individually. Some locations do not have a postcode sector, this may be due to the property being a parent shell, playing field, sports ground, allotment or the land is used for storage.  A parent shell is a 'wrappe...

This dataset has been released as a one-off extra dataset to supplement the existing rain gauge rainfall data for the FloodHack16 hack event held at ODI Leeds on 11 & 12 March 2016. Information Every time 0.2mm of rain has fallen, the time stamp is recorded.  This means that the closer the time stamp, the harder it is raining.

A dataset showing the movers and shakers in Leeds both past and present. This information is used by the council to populate an interactive museum resource. Please note There are parts of this dataset which are missing. This is a one-off dataset.

On Friday 11th April 2014 Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust hosted a workshop, 'Planning Care: make the most of data' in association with Bloom, Quality Health, Leeds Data Thing, Leeds Data Mill and LYPFT Planning Care. The workshop provided people accessing services, carers, and health and social practitioners the opportunity to work with developers, designers and coders to understand better the data we hold in relation ...

This data is sourced from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and is available via their API. The data is updated on a daily basis and available in XML format via the link. Terms and Conditions Please ensure you read the FSA's Terms and Conditions before re-using this data. http://www.food.gov.uk/about-us/data-and-policies/aboutsite/termsandconditions/hygiene-rating-data

In December 2010 the UK Government launched a strategy entitled “Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future”, which had the objective of establishing a framework to facilitate the roll-out of Superfast Broadband (SFBB) and basic broadband across the country. Subsequently, the Government committed GBP £530 million of funding to meet this objective, which is where part of the funding for this project is derived from. The Government’s broadband ...