Unlocking the value of your address and street data through integration allows councils to do more with less.
What is integration?
- Integration simply means connecting and using 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). Similarly each street has a Unique Street Reference Number (USRN). These machine-readable numbers can link together different departments and their data, enabling smarter decision-making, saving resources, and ensuring certainty.
- Integration helps your authority make well-informed decisions, saves time and money, and improves services, but can often be quite a complex and challenging task to undertake.
- We have curated a wide range of support materials, best practice, videos and interactive tools below to help you on your integration journey.
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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.
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Generate procurement criteria for software systems
Try this new procurement support tool. It's a technical criteria-defining tool for address data requirements. It delivers certainty for local authorities in the commissioning and purchase of new local authority systems’ software… and it only takes 3 minutes to use.
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Procure a new Gazetteer Management System (GMS)
A set of tools based on the typical functionality desired of a new address or street Gazetteer Management System
