POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

The Local Government Association and GeoPlace are working together to raise awareness of the value custodians have and the data they hold. This 15-minute roundtable will explore a draft guide designed for senior managers and leadership teams, focused on promoting the wider value of street and address data across local government systems. Participants will have the opportunity to review the initial draft and provide input to ensure the guide is aligned with the priorities, language, and decision-making context of senior leaders. 

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

With High Street Rental Auction powers now live and MHCLG funding available to support the development of Vacancy Registers, this roundtable explores what it would take to create a consistent, fundable, and actionable dataset on vacant shopfronts. We’ll look at how London boroughs are already using shared vacancy data through the High Streets Data Service, and explore how wider datasets—especially those linked via UPRNs—could help shape a national standard. The goal: take the guesswork out of landlord engagement, unlock investment, and bring life back to high streets

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

There is growing interest in engaging children and young people directly in local services and government. Their digital footprint creates new opportunities to understand and engage with young people. But there are complex questions about what kind of digital tools are appropriate, about the quality of some data on young people, and the handling of sensitive information. This session would explore some recent thinking and understanding participant's views on how place, children and data should interact. 

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

This session will explore critical questions that public sector leaders must address to navigate the evolving digital landscape effectively. Topics include strategic digital initiatives, beneficial partnerships, cost reduction through technology, technological readiness, creative staffing solutions, place-based data insights, community resilience, GenAI vision, risk protection, and value and inclusion.

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

How do you gather data about your local area to enable evidence-based decision making? What challenges do you face when looking for local statistics? What opportunities (e.g. technological improvements) are you looking forward to in this space? 

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

UPRNs facilitate data linking and analysis across different systems and organisations. This interoperability is crucial for complex analyses and for ensuring that data can be reliably shared and used by various public sector bodies. Awareness and adoption of the UPRN can aid in developing the digital competency and maturity of public sector information sharing abilities. The round table will explore:

- The current challenges that public sector bodies encounter when sharing and discovering data (not exclusively geospatial)

- Government data standards, their implementation, and ways they can be improved  

- How organisations and departments are already harnessing the UPRN and OSIDs to break down data silos

Opportunities for OS and GeoPlace to facilitate data sharing and promote the use of UPRNs as the unique identifier used to traverse across datasets containing property and/or street information. 

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

The round table discussion and outputs will explore experiences with engaging with other departments, to gain benefits from integrating via the UPRN and USRN (and including them in their systems and processes). This can include change intelligence (sharing with other depts/software) and procurement of systems to enable this. 

POLICY AND PERFORMANCE

Integrating address and street data can be extremely challenging, so let us help you! I am keen to hear from you directly about your integration woes, the barriers you face and the issues that keep cropping up. What would you like GeoPlace to help you with and how? Let’s have a chat about what we can do to support you and your integration journey. We have also developed a wide range of integration support tools and guides so I will signpost these where relevant – they may be exactly what you need! 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION

Dave will lead a discussion looking at issues such as:

- How do you determine, without prejudice, which streets and addressing software to use for the new authority?  

- If dealing with a change of software, what technical problems may arise, such as uploading problems, authority codes etc.

- How do I merge data from different authorities?  

- How do I break streets and addressing data up? 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council came together as a unitary authority in 2019. We are still working on combining a variety of datasets and, from a GIS perspective, have worked with the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Our key lessons learnt have been:

- How good is the data? Understand the Quality of the Data on Day One

- Are the right people around the table?

- Does everybody use the same terminology?

- Has everybody agreed on how the data will be processed going forwards?

Away from Addressing Solutions data, we have been flying the flag on the importance of UPRNs and USRNs. If there is the opportunity to improve this data when bringing areas together, it is that step closer to being able to provide a Single View of the Citizen

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION

Speak to a recently created unitary authority on their experience along with hints and tips to complete a project to merge multiple gazetteer systems into a successful, single merged authority gazetteer in time for vesting day of the new authority.  Consider when to begin the process, procurement, who needs to be involved, timescales and what may need to be considered involved along the way.

USING ADDRESS DATA

Improving public self-service by using GIS and AI through tools like Hub, which leverage UPRN-linked data to deliver geographically tailored information and responses.

- What information do you hold that could be presented nicely to public to help with self-service?  

- What could be tied to a UPRN to create new themes of information delivery?  

- What could we feed into an AI chatbot to help residents to solve their problems?

USING ADDRESS DATA

Come and explore:

- The current challenges faced by custodians in accessing and adopting OS NGD

- Success stories and case studies showcasing how local authorities have used OS NGD

- Opportunities for OS and GeoPlace to provide support and guidance to custodians in their mission to maximize the value of geospatial data. 

USING ADDRESS DATA

An opportunity to feedback to the GeoPlace Helpdesk ways in which they can improve their support, guidance and services, and ideas for any training you would like to see available.

USING ADDRESS DATA

- How do you find the process of introducing changes to the Improvement Schedule? How can it be improved?

- How is the consultation process for LAs? What information do you need to see in order to make a decision?

- Are there any particular improvements you would like to focus on next year?

USING ADDRESS DATA

In today’s rapidly changing world, maintaining high quality address data can be challenging. New developments, changes within the built environment and raising standards all add layers of complexity. From ensuring precise positional accuracy to staying on top of property lifecycle and keeping up with organisation changes staying ahead is not straight forward.
What aspects of managing address data do you find the challenging? What additional support do you think GeoPlace can offer to help overcome these challenges?

STREET NAMING AND NUMBERING

With 1.5 million new homes on the horizon by 2029, smart street naming and numbering has never been more crucial. Join our roundtable to help shape Idox’s next-gen SNN tool—built for your needs, and the future.

STREET NAMING AND NUMBERING

Historical place-names typically arose as descriptive labels created in everyday speech. As such, they are a rich source of local language and earlier perceptions of the landscape. They shed light on the distinctive character of a place and its people. The Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham is currently carrying out a pilot project with GeoPlace LLP and various local authorities across the country. The project explores the ways in which historical place-names can be used today in modern street naming. This round table session will discuss the benefits and challenges of using this evidence, as well as how to go about it. 

STREET NAMING AND NUMBERING
To gather bold, honest ideas from the SNN community about what changes—big or small—they believe would most improve the SNN landscape. This discussion will directly inform the ongoing work of the SNN Working Group as we reflect on Year 1 of the 5-year SNN Working Group strategy and look ahead to year 2.