Unlocking the value of your address data through integration allows councils to do more with less.
What is integration?
Integration simply means connecting your vast amounts of data more effectively, and the key to this lies in unique location data. Every place—homes, businesses, hospitals, schools, care homes—has a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN), which is already embedded in your Local Land and Property Gazetteer. This machine-readable number links different departments, enabling smarter decision-making, saving resources, and ensuring certainty.
As the LGA highlights, UPRNs are “key to almost everything delivered by councils.” By integrating UPRNs with departmental datasets, you can create holistic solutions, ensuring, for instance, that vulnerable families receiving social care are also benefiting from appropriate council tax support.
Integration helps you make well-informed decisions, saves time and money, and improves services. To get started, talk to your Local Address Custodian or GeoPlace for guidance.
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Integration knowledge base
The Integration Knowledge Base is designed to provide answers to the most common integration queries
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UPRN integration assessment
Our UPRN Integration assessment tool allows local authority service managers to ascertain how well integrated their service area and software is with the UPRN. It takes less than 3 minutes to complete and grades the level of integration on a scale of 1 (not integrated) to 4 (Advanced integration), plus provides recommendations on how to improve and level up if need be.
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UPRN integration checklist
A tool for local authority service managers.
This checklist summarises key action points to follow up on within your service area to help improve UPRN integration capability. Further notes on why this is important and how to go about finding out the answers are also provided.
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Integration and data linking with UPRNs
See our video about the value of integration
CASE STUDY
The LGA suggests that there are ‘easy wins’ for local authorities with UPRNs
In her role as the Research and Information Manager at the LGA, Juliet Whitworth has a unique, informed perspective on the ‘easy wins’ with location data, from which many local authorities could quickly benefit.
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Use your gazetteer to detect missing local tax revenue
Are you collecting all your local revenues? Do you know where all your residents live and where all of your businesses are located? Are you identifying all non-exempt properties and clamping down on fraud?
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Derive efficiencies and insight from the data you didn’t know you had
All councils have an incredible pool of data at their disposal. Find a series of resources designed to support your data journey.
