National Land and Property Gazetteer
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The National Land and Property Gazetteer
(NLPG) is an initiative in the United Kingdom
to provide a definitive and consistent address — see address (geography)
— infrastructure for the whole of the UK. Up until recently the UK has not held a single list of all addresses in the country, meaning that many government and private services have not been sure if addresses from differing sources refer to the same or different properties.
The NLPG is made up of the input of Local Land and Property Gazetteer
s (LLPGs) maintained by local authorities that are the creators of all address information excepting postcodes. The NLPG then acts as a central repository or "hub" for LLPGs maintained by local authorities. The NLPG also enforces compliance by local authorities with the national standard for the representation of address information, British Standard 7666 (BS7666), and coordinates and enforces the maintenance of LLPGs by local authorities.
Currently the NLPG is managed by the company Intelligent Addressing on behalf of the Improvement and Development Agency
(IDeA) - an umbrella government organisation coordinating and promoting local authority good practice.
The NLPG does not just hold addresses where people work or live, or addresses that have a postal address. The NLPG also includes 'non-addressable properties that are of no use for postal deliveries but can be vital information for emergency response, asset insurance, planning issues, repair and maintenance, and many other activities.' http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/1214.
In many ways the information held by the NLPG may be considered to hold a national model of land and property in the UK.
Although the NLPG may be considered to be in an intermediate stage of development, its usage has been taken up by a number of public and private organisations as it provides the most complete register of land and property in the UK.
to allow for the creation of the National Spatial Address Infrastructure
(NSAI).
On 3 December 2010, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
announced the formation of GeoPlace
to provide a freely-available national address gazetteer. This is a joint venture between the Local Government Group and Ordnance Survey
which includes the acquisition of Intelligent Addressing.
Gazetteer
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names , used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent as well as the social...
(NLPG) is an initiative in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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to provide a definitive and consistent address — see address (geography)
Address (geography)
An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used for describing the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or...
— infrastructure for the whole of the UK. Up until recently the UK has not held a single list of all addresses in the country, meaning that many government and private services have not been sure if addresses from differing sources refer to the same or different properties.
The NLPG is made up of the input of Local Land and Property Gazetteer
Local Land and Property Gazetteer
A Local Land and Property Gazetteer is an address database maintained by local authorities in the United Kingdom. In the UK local authorities have responsibility for creating all addresses, however, until recently those same local authorities have not held a unified and consistent list of...
s (LLPGs) maintained by local authorities that are the creators of all address information excepting postcodes. The NLPG then acts as a central repository or "hub" for LLPGs maintained by local authorities. The NLPG also enforces compliance by local authorities with the national standard for the representation of address information, British Standard 7666 (BS7666), and coordinates and enforces the maintenance of LLPGs by local authorities.
Currently the NLPG is managed by the company Intelligent Addressing on behalf of the Improvement and Development Agency
Improvement and Development Agency
Local Government Improvement and Development is one of the six bodies that form the Local Government Group overseen by the Local Government Association in England and Wales...
(IDeA) - an umbrella government organisation coordinating and promoting local authority good practice.
The NLPG does not just hold addresses where people work or live, or addresses that have a postal address. The NLPG also includes 'non-addressable properties that are of no use for postal deliveries but can be vital information for emergency response, asset insurance, planning issues, repair and maintenance, and many other activities.' http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/1214.
In many ways the information held by the NLPG may be considered to hold a national model of land and property in the UK.
Although the NLPG may be considered to be in an intermediate stage of development, its usage has been taken up by a number of public and private organisations as it provides the most complete register of land and property in the UK.
National Spatial Address Infrastructure
On 26 May 2005 the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister proposed that ownership of the NLPG transfer from the IDeA to Ordnance SurveyOrdnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
to allow for the creation of the National Spatial Address Infrastructure
National Spatial Address Infrastructure
The National Spatial Address Infrastructure was a database proposed by the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on 26 May 2005 with the intention of creating a single repository of addresses for the UK...
(NSAI).
On 3 December 2010, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is a Cabinet position heading the UK's Department for Communities and Local Government....
announced the formation of GeoPlace
GeoPlace
GeoPlace is an organisation that oversees the production and maintenance of the national address gazetteers, which are created and maintained with input from all local authorities in England and Wales...
to provide a freely-available national address gazetteer. This is a joint venture between the Local Government Group and Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
which includes the acquisition of Intelligent Addressing.
See also
- Local Land and Property GazetteerLocal Land and Property GazetteerA Local Land and Property Gazetteer is an address database maintained by local authorities in the United Kingdom. In the UK local authorities have responsibility for creating all addresses, however, until recently those same local authorities have not held a unified and consistent list of...
(LLPG) - National Street GazetteerNational Street GazetteerThe National Street Gazetteer is a database of all streets in England and Wales compiled from the responsible highway authorities. In the United Kingdom local authorities have responsibility for the creation and maintenance of streets as well as the management of street works. The NSG is a...
(NSG) - Mapping Services AgreementMapping Services AgreementThe Mapping Services Agreement is a licensing contract between local authorities in the United Kingdom and suppliers of geographic data. Most of its contents are covered by commercial in confidence requirements...
(MSA)
External links
- National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
- Evaluating the benefits of the LLPG and NLPG (CEBR Final Report)
- Valuebill — an example of the implementation of the NLPG nationwide for the Valuation Office Agency (VOA)