Context

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

Content

This data counts the number of crimes at two different geographic levels of London (LSOA and borough) by year, according to crime type. Includes data from 2008 to present. Crime categories are included in the BigQuery table description.

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Acknowledgements

https://data.london.gov.uk/

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:london_crime?_ga=2.189454959.-577194880.1523455401

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/greater-london-authority/london-crime?filter=category:public-safety

This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source — http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy — and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

What is the change in the number of crime incidents from 2011 to 2016?

What were the top 3 crimes per borough in 2016?

This dataset shows the location of Tree Preservation Orders in the City of London, A Tree Preservation Order (TPO) is an Order made by the City of London and can apply to a single tree, a group of trees or a woodland. A TPO may be made by a local authority if it appears expedient in the interests of amenity to make provision for the preservation of the trees. The Order gives legal protection against a tree being cut down, topped, lopped, uprooted, wilfully damaged or wilfully destroyed. It is an offence to cut down any part of a tree which is the subject of a TPO including cutting the roots, without first obtaining consent from the Local Planning Authority.

The following dataset file contains qualitative interview data from the first-stage of the Protecting Children at a Distance study. The study utilised a two-stage modified Delphi methodology to elicit responses from safeguarding leaders from all professional disciplines involved in child safeguarding and protection.The first stage, which took place between June and September 2020, comprised 67 semi-structured interviews with London-based safeguarding and child protection leaders within seven professional groups: Children’s Social Care, Health, Mental Health, Police, Education, Law and Safeguarding Partnerships. Interviewees’ priorities and responses informed the questions and response options for the second stage, a national survey distributed to similar professional groups in February–March 2021, which elicited 417 responses for analysis.Ethical approval for the study was granted by the King’s College London Research Ethics Committee [LRS-19/20-19420]. Stage 1 was deemed a service evaluation by participating NHS organisations.The study is funded by the King’s Together: Multi & Interdisciplinary Research Scheme and the Economic & Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Accounts Social Science Impact Fund.All participants were provided with a participant information sheet and asked to consent to study participation. The information sheet noted that anonymised data will be held and publicly available in the King's College London Research Data Management System.The following files have been anonymised to protect interviewer and participant confidentiality.

List of properties licensed under the Council’s HMO Licensing Scheme. This list is updated on a monthly basis. Under section 232 of The Housing Act 2004 the London Borough of Barnet is required to maintain and make available a public register of licensed Houses in Multiple Occupations. An extract of the register is published on the Council’s website here. The dataset is not intended for marketing purposes and none of the individuals or organisations mentioned within this register have given their consent for such use. Companies wishing to use this data for commercial purposes, and marketing in particular, are advised to consider whether their use of this data complies with the UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. Information Rights are upheld by the Information Commissioners Office, for further information, see the Information Commissioner’s Office website at ww.ico.org.uk. More information on Houses in Multiple Occupancy can be found on our website as well as on the council's Planning portal. You will need to select "Houses in Multiple Occupation" from the drop-down menu and click "Search":

Listed buildings are buildings of special architectural or historic interest with legal protection. This geojson file shows extents (polygons) of listed buildings within the London Borough of Southwark. Attribute values include grade, location name and a link to the PDF listing document.