Agenda

Understanding energy use in British buildings

• James Hemingway, National Energy Efficiency Data Framework, BEIS
  

This presentation will summarise how BEIS joins uses UPRNs to join administrative data sources to form databases of non-domestic and domestic buildings in England and Wales. This data is used to analyse the relationship between buildings’ energy consumption/ intensity and various building characteristics/attributes (including building use, floor area, region, occupancy). Most of the focus will be on non-domestic buildings, but James will also touch on domestic buildings

Linking data to target warm home discounts

• James Wardroper, GI Consultant, Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions

Housing improvements – targeting vulnerable families in fuel poverty

• Mark Wood, Business Intelligence Technical Advisor, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Jamie Tasker, Business Intelligence Technical Advisor, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Riley Marsden, Data Management Specialist, Ordnance Survey, formerly Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Barnsley Council manages a number of programmes and initiatives relating to housing improvement and fuel poverty, often with different criteria and funding streams. The Business Intelligence team were approached to determine whether the overall management of these programmes could be improved by collecting, processing and sharing data to enable more proactive management and targeting of households – in particular drawing upon the previous development of the Barnsley Vulnerability Index.

This presentation will cover the rapid development process and demonstrate how a systematic approach to data linking (including via the UPRN) enabled new insights to be generated.

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The National Underground Asset Register's position in the wider geospatial ecosystem

• Holger Kessler, NUAR Stakeholder and Communications Lead, Geospatial Commission

The National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) has been designed to give planners and excavators access to the data they need, when they need it, to carry out their jobs effectively and safely. The system has also been designed to be both extensible and interoperable, keeping the door open to supporting other high value uses (such as street works coordination, flood risk management and 5G deployment) as well as integrating with other systems. This presentation will give an overview of the NUAR programme, opportunities and how it fits within the wider geospatial ecosystem.

Understanding the network connections of people and premises through geospatial data and Linked Identifiers in Project Gigabit

• Chris Page, Place Based Strategies Leading on Data and Geospatial, DCMS

We have started to build an understanding of Place and People using Ordnance Survey (OS) and Office of National Statistics (ONS) data combined with curated broadband speed and technology assessments and Local Authority insights.

Using Tableau to map and interactively analyse the data, decision makers can assess the impact of the various strategies and Intervention Areas under consideration.

We are currently investigating the use of our Network Graph Diffusion model for area zoning by diffusing information through a network graph where the RoadLinks and PathLinks are the nodes with the edges representing the connects to relation.

Developing an active travel mapping system for Wales – a collaborative and iterative approach

• Natalie Grohmann, Head of Active Travel Policy, Welsh Government

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Improving the property chain

• Robert Stevens, Head of Property Risk, Nationwide Building Society

Rob will discuss the digitalisation of home buying and selling journey through the intelligent use of data to link together the underwriting, conveyancing and valuation processes

• Antje Bustamante, Director of Data and Analytics, Zoopla
  

Antje will discuss why Zoopla decided to adopt UPRNs and the benefits of this adoption for both its agent customers and consumers. She will also discuss what opportunities UPRNs present to further join up property data and what this this could mean for the property industry as a whole.

Local Land Charges, UPRN data and the housing market

• Mark Edwards, Service Manager, LLC Register Service
• Andrew Trigg, Chief Geospatial & Data Officer, HM Land Registry

Mark and Andrew will provide an overview of the Local Land Charges programme, how it uses UPRN data to support data migration/digitisation and supports the housing market, together with the use of UPRNs in Land Registry datasets and the land registration process.

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Exploring proposals for a National Landlord Register in England

• William Holmes, Senior Policy Advisor in the Private Rented Sector and Leasehold Directorate, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

The Government has committed to exploring proposals for introducing a landlord register in England as part of a commitment to bring forward reforms to drive improvements in privately rented accommodation, and support local authorities to conduct well targeted effective enforcement. This presentation will explore the work which the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities have been doing to explore the merits of introducing a landlord register in England.

Building safety

• Rebecca Thompson, Senior Policy Lead: Golden thread of building information (Hackitt Recommendation post Grenfell), Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Megan Tilley, Statistician in the Buildings Safety Insights Team, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

It is important that buildings are safe and secure and that we can all feel safe in our homes. Building safety is a key priority for government. But how does better data and UPRNs support this work.

Representatives from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will set out the value of UPRNs, and how they see their work with GeoPlace as intrinsic to keeping people safe.

Addressing the Fire Service

• Steve Taylor, System and Data Services Manager, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

For Fire Services across the UK, accurate addressing information is absolutely vital. Of course we use that information to get to incidents as quickly as possible, but we also use it to prevent incidents from occurring. We visit people in their homes to offer advice, and we visit business addresses to carry out safety checks and risk assessments to ensure the public and our Firefighters remain safe when incidents do occur. In the process of doing this we can also discover address change information that could help Custodians keep their data to a high standard of accuracy. Let's talk about how we can help each other keep our communities safe.

Local authority building safety data

• Jack Ricketts, Made Tech, previously Principal Planning Officer at Southwark Council
  

The accessibility of information relevant to building safety is very much a mixed bag within councils. A good example is how we reference individual properties. It’s quite common for individual departments to refer to the same property in different ways, which makes the marrying up of information from various sources close to impossible.

The task is often further compounded by the over reliance on spreadsheets and the absence of APIs. This serves to make the outcomes less, not more, accurate.

With the use of UPRNs and applying the concept of a ‘golden thread’ to this disparate information, it is possible to start bringing information together in an accessible and usable way.

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