Allotment Data Collection
Hello – We have a new site that requires data being collected from almost 500 seperate local govt websites (District, County & Town Councils) in the UK.
We have the correct name for each of organizations. What we require are the following fields:
1. Council Website URL
2. Council Website Allotmemnt Page URL
3. Poscode Of The Council
4. Contact Name of Allotments Officer
5. Contact Telephone Number of Allotments Officer
6. General Contact Tel for Council
7. Email Address For Allotments Enquiries
8. Main Email Address For Council
9. Annual cost of an allotment
10. Any other important comments.
Then we need the actual address & postcode of each allotment site listed on the local authority page.
For instance, if you look at the following page
http://www.worthing.gov.uk/worthings-services/leisureandculture/parksampopenspaces/allotments/
(which is for Worthing District Council’s Allotment webpage) you can see on the left hand side it lists the different allotments that it operates (Chesswood Farm,Dominion Road, George V Avenue, Haynes Road, Hill Barn Lane, Humber Avenue, St Andrews Road,West Tarring).
I attach a spreadsheet which has all the headings in place and has been completed for the first 3 local govt sites on the list.
I have also produced a word document with helpful instructions on how to interpret the allotment names, and how to find postcodes from amiguous names (the post codes are essential to us).
We are very keen to have the spreadsheet completed withy as many results as possible in 1 week.
Some of the information will not be possible to find, and I would aim to gather complere data for about 80% of the local authorities.
We can agree a rate and then pro rata it depending on results.
IMPORTANT – When you submit the spreadsheet at the end of the job I will select 10 random local authorities and personally validate all the entries.
If there are substantial inacurracies I will do a further test of 10 random sites and if the inaccuracies are wide spread we will not pay for the work, as it will mean we have to repeat the entire job to make sure the results are accurate.
I hope you understand this is only reasonable.
All the best
Ben Heaton
