Canterbury’s Addresses Play Area Provision with the NLPG

Canterbury City Council has recently completed an award winning review of its Play Strategy for Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay. The review was based on national guidelines for play area provision and made innovative use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) to calculate areas where this fell short. The review has already resulted in improvements to six play areas and prioritisation of areas in need of further provision which will be addressed through the planning process.

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Harrow Cuts Waste by £3.5million: Gazetteer Underpins Award Winning Waste and Recycling Service

London, 07 March 2011 - 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).

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Huntingdonshire Gazetteer Smooths Boundary Commission Changes

London, 04 March 2011 - Boundary Commission changes affecting more than 6,000 properties in Huntingdonshire, UK, have been assimilated across the region thanks to the high quality of the District Council’s address database, the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG). Changes to boundaries affect Council Tax, Electoral Registration and administration across Local Government.

Administrative and electoral boundaries change infrequently but are under constant review to ensure that they are an up to date reflection of real life communities with appropriate electoral representation. The process to change parish and ward boundaries can take several years before the necessary statutory instrument is drawn up. In the final calculations the Huntingdonshire boundary changes of 2010 affected 27 out of 84 parishes, 3 were abolished, 4 new parishes were created and the remainder saw changes to their boundaries. The changes also affected 8 out of the 29 electoral wards and most significantly more than 6,000 properties.

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Neil Silley Becomes Custodian of the NLPG

London, 15 February 2011 - Intelligent Addressing (IA) has  appointed Neil Silley as the new custodian of the NLPG (National Land and  property Gazetteer). The custodian is responsible for the coordination of inputs  from local authorities across England and Wales to ensure the quality and  accuracy of this key national database.

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Chorley Street Naming Honours Pilgrim Father

London, 14 February 2011 – The naming of a new link road in English town of Chorley, Lancashire, has honoured an internationally significant former resident.  The road was named by Chorley Borough Council as Myles Standish Way after an English Officer hired by the Pilgrim Fathers as Military Advisor for the Plymouth Colony.  A passenger on the Mayflower on arrival in the ‘New World’, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defence of the settlement from its inception. The Standish family lived in Chorley from 1300 to 1623 and built an Elizabethan Hall at Duxbury close to the new road, thought to be the birthplace of Myles Standish.

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