Everything Happens Somewhere - Working together across the public sector

Conference, exhibition and presentation of the National Gazetteers Exemplar Awards 2011

Thursday 3 November, The Albert Hall, Nottingham

The conference and exhibition coincides with a big change in the supply and availability of address data – the availability of the national address gazetteer.

The overall theme for the conference is 'Working together across the public sector'.  This signifies the new working relationships across the public sector under the PSMA and the availability of the national address gazetteer which will become available to the whole of the public sector once it is launched in the autumn.

Information about the exhibition can be seen on the GeoPlace website.

Other themes within the conference include:

• Working together across the public sector
• the importance of location to service delivery

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GeoPlace takes over rationalisation of Streetworks codes

From 1 April 2011, GeoPlace has taken over responsibility for the administration, maintenance, allocation and hosting of the Streetworks Data Capture Code List.  This is a database, formerly hosted by the Department for Transport (DfT) that holds codes and tables used in the Electronic Transfer of Notices (EToN) for organisations, known as statutory undertakers, which have a statutory duty under the New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) to dig in the road.

GeoPlace is a public sector Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) jointly owned by the Local Government Group and Ordnance Survey.  GeoPlace has responsibility for managing the National Street Gazetteer (NSG), the database of streets which is maintained by local Highway Authorities and used by statutory undertakers to locate proposed street works and notify Highway Authorities.  Alongside this, GeoPlace is responsible for developing the national address gazetteer in conjunction with local authorities that have street naming and numbering responsibilities.

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Addresses Underpin Award Winning Waste and Recycling Service

Harrow Council’s new Waste and Recycling service is used as a benchmark by other local authorities.  It has won a number of awards and is set to deliver £3.2m in savings over the next ten years. However none of this would have been possible without its high quality source of addressing, Harrow’s Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG).

Harrow’s waste management system handles three bin types for each property; recycled waste, general waste and organic waste, each linked to a unique property reference number (UPRN) held in the LLPG. This system is wirelessly linked to vehicle cabs and integrated internally with the call centre CRM. Both systems independently receive address updates on a daily basis from the LLPG. Forms on the MyHarrow web portal are also linked to the CRM and the waste management system and are facilitated by the LLPG.  In addition, the LLPG is also used for the waste management system’s integrated route optimisation module, which is already delivering a 15% fuel reduction.

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