Local Land and Property
Gazetteer
Cheshire East Council maintains a corporate database of
land and property addresses, the Local Land and Property
Gazetteer and is sending regular updates to the
National Land and Property Gazetteer (
NLPG
)
Local Land and Property Gazetteer (
LLPG
)
The Local Land and Property Gazetteer
(
LLPG
) is a
BS7666 compliant address database maintained and used by
the Council. As the database is maintained centrally and to a
common standard it delivers real efficiencies and improvements in
service delivery and interoperability when implemented throughout
all parts of the organization.
National Street Gazetteer (
NSG
)
The
National Street
Gazetteer (
NSG
)
is the definitive list of streets in England and Wales and is used
by Local Authorities streetworks departments to coordinate the work
that is being performed on the highway within their administrative
area. It aims to minimise disruption and ensure public safety. and
forms part of the statutory duty of the local authority as defined
in the New Roads and Streetworks Act (1991).
Statutory undertakers of highways duties (telecoms and utility
companies) notify the highways/streetworks department of the
relevant local authority that they wish to perform work on a
particular road via reference to a Unique Street Reference Number
(USRN).
Improvement and Development Agency (
IDeA
)
Improvement and
Development Agency (IDeA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Local Government
Association, created by and for local government in England and
Wales. They are accountable to local government through a board of
directors half of whom are local government councillors. They work
in partnership with all councils, to “enhance the performance of
the best, accelerate the speed of improvement of the rest, and
develop the sector as a whole”.
Intelligent Addressing (IA)
Intelligent
Addressing is a specialist private sector data management
consultancy employing recognised experts in addressing. It was
originally set up to help develop the
National Land and Property Gazetteer
(NLPG) on behalf of local government and now manages the
NLPG
and
NSG
central data
hubs under the terms of the Mapping Services Agreement
(
MSA
) with local
government.
Mapping Services Agreement (
MSA
)
The
MSA
is a large scale
public procurement administered by
IDeA
, covering the
supply of geographic data to Local Authorities in England and Wales
under which authorities receive electronic map data and gazetteer
services at a significant reduction to the usual cost. As part of
the agreement each authority is obliged to designate custodians who
are responsible for ensuring that their
LLPG
and LSG datasets
are maintained and supplied on a regular basis to the national
hubs.
If an authority does not meet the requirements of the agreement
IDeA
have
the power to take sanctions including invoicing the authority,
taking control of the maintenance of the gazetteers and recouping
the cost from the local authority and withdrawing
MSA
services (including all
mapping products).
Whilst no specific penalties are stated for non compliance with the
New Roads and Street Works Act the
Department for Transport has said
that the ultimate sanction for authorities who do not fulfill their
highway management duties is to have those powers taken away from
them.
However, the biggest consequence of not maintaining and using the
gazetteers sufficiently is that the authority cannot perform their
duties fully and efficiently and reap the many rewards which the
gazetteers bring.
