GeoPlace announces 2021 Exemplar Award winners
GeoPlace announces the winners of its 2021 Exemplar Awards at the 15th Annual GeoPlace conference.
Minister for Housing to speak at GeoPlace annual conference
GeoPlace has announced that the Rt. Hon Christopher Pincher MP, Minister for Housing will speak at its annual conference which takes places online on 12th and 1...
GeoPlace annual conference 2021 – Places for People
GeoPlace has announced its annual conference which takes places online on 12th and 13th May 2021. The theme is ‘Place for People’.
Developing an excellent address list for Census 2021
Since 1801, the nation has been setting aside one day every ten years to conduct the census, collecting an understanding of all people and households. It is the...
FindMyStreet 2.0 – upgraded and easier to use
In 2019 we made it possible for anyone to find and see the name and location of every street in England and Wales and to understand which ones are maintained at...
The UK’s Residential Property Sector advocates greater adoption of the UPRN
Greater adoption of the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) will deliver substantial benefits to UK society.
GeoPlace Evaluates Unadopted Roads on Behalf of the Welsh Assembly
Privately maintained, the law on the maintenance and adoption of private roads can be complex. Briefly, an unadopted road is a road or street not maintainable...
Guidance on the law and best practice for the re-naming of streets and buildings
GeoPlace has published comprehensive guidance for local authority Street Naming and Numbering Officers and their co-workers in England and Wales who are respons...
Using UPRNs to support the flow of public health and social care data
The Local Government Association (LGA) and GeoPlace will be working on a collaborative project to discover and promote the use of open UPRNs. We are keen to hig...
Review of SWA code list builds confidence
GeoPlace has undertaken a complete review and rebuild of the SWA code list, using its experience in data management to overcome some inherent challenges. The li...
Central government and the NHS must now use UPRNs and USRNs to unlock the power of place
From 1st July, Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRN), which are the unique numerical identifiers for UK property a...
USRNs underpin new £12 million digital street works project
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a new digital service for managing streetworks and providing a single view of a street and what is happening on ...
