Benefits

Using the NLPG will benefit any organization that needs to deliver a service to somewhere, or needs to track their assets or manage information tied to a location.

For example, an insurance company may use NLPG data to determine risk at a multiple-occupancy residence such as a Halls of Residence and a commercial organization such as a Utilities company will use it to determine how many meters are required behind a single front door.

From when a property is first granted planning permission it is included in the relevant local authority's gazetteer and it will remain there for its entire lifecycle. Even if a property is converted to multi-residency use, changed from, say a chapel to a private dwelling, or eventually demolished, it will remain on the LLPG.

The NLPG's unique property reference number (UPRN) means you can continue to hold your addresses in their existing formats but, by adding a single field containing the UPRN, it becomes possible to link matching records in different databases together. You can also link to data held by other organisations using the same UPRN referencing system. Because of the scope and comprehensiveness of the NLPG, it will assist in reducing duplicates and ambiguity.

Because Local Land and Property Gazetteer data is a single, definitive address source that is constantly updated and maintained, it provides local government, the emergency services and commercial enterprise with high-quality information that can be used in a variety of ways.

  • meet government targets for electronic service delivery, efficiency and service transformation
  • reduce duplication of effort on maintaining land and property-related information across multiple departments
  • protect your investment in data collection by using common address formats across fast-changing applications
  • adopt standard formats for collecting address data, facilitating data sharing between different departments and organisations
  • use this information to support internal decision-making processes
  • disseminate information to citizens and customers
  • provide access to a rapidly-growing commercial market for geographic information
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