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by Local Government Association (LGA)

A CSV template for publishing the details of licences required in order to carry out retail sale of alcohol or the provision of regulated entertainment or the provision of late night refreshment. This includes any location where such activities take place including a building, a moveable structure, an open space, a vehicle or vessel.

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Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

    Many fields require URIs that are specific to UK legal code

  • Stakeholder Participation Yes

    The Local Government Association consists of local government officials who collaborate to develop best practices for local authorities, the would-be stakeholders.

  • Consensus-Based Governance No

    Although schemas and documentation are held on GitHub, changes can only be decided by the LGA

  • Extensions No

    The LGA provides a CSV template, and extensions are not supported by the LGA data portal

  • Human Readable Yes

    CSV template has readable headers

  • Machine Readable Yes

    CSV format required

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

    Dates included in the licenses are noted, as well as the date that the data was extracted from its source database, but there is no requirement for consistent publication

  • Metadata No

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A project of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, with Geothink / McGill University and the open data community.