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It is quite normal to find that across a Local Authority, a single property may have many different addresses in numerous databases and be referred to in many different ways. The aim of the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) is to rationalise these databases right across the authority so that we all know the same piece of land or property as the same thing or that if we do have different names, we can tell that we are referring to the same place.
Each Local Authority is required to produce an LLPG and submit it to the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) where it is further rationalised against other government address based data. This national hub of information will ensure that each property or piece of land has a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) that will help to identify it across many other organisations such as Ordnance Survey, Land Registry, The Valuation Office, and Royal Mail etc. It will also ensure that all address-based information is compliant to BS7666, the British Standard for addresses. The NLPG will underpin many other government initiatives including the National Land Information Service (NLIS - simplifying Conveyancing), the National Land Use Database (NLUD), and changes to the Electoral Register.
At Hastings Borough Council we have a Level One LLPG. This means that we have submitted our data to the NLPG and are making regular updates to the NLPG hub. The process of matching our data against data inside other national datasets leaves us with many 'candidate' properties that need to be rationalised or 'cleaned'. The process of cleaning our data is currently underway but it is a very slow and labourious task and may take some months yet to complete. Once our LLPG has been cleaned, other datasets from across the Local Authority will be matched to it to ensure that we are all using the most current address information and referring to the correct UPRNs.
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If you wish to know more about the NLPG, please contact the Local Land and Property Gazetteer Custodian.
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This page last updated: 08/11/2004