NLPG and NSG Exemplar Award Winners

16 October 2008, 4:33pm

The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) and Intelligent Addressing (IA) today announced the winners of the 2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards. The Awards recognise the innovation, commitment and achievement of the local authority community, including the police and fire authorities in the creation, maintenance and utilisation of the National Land & Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and National Street Gazetteer (NSG).

This year the Awards ceremony took place at The International Convention Centre in Birmingham as part of the NLPG and NSG – Underpinning Transformational Government conference, which was attended by over 350 delegates from all over England and Wales. The conference included a number of significant presentations including demonstrations of the role of the NLPG in the day-to-day operations of the British Transport Police, and of the NSG in relation to the work of Network Rail.

The NLPG and NSG are two key initiatives to improve efficiency and service delivery. The sharing of accurate address information across local government departments, emergency services, national and regional government is a vital component in the drive to facilitate and improve efficiency and service delivery. John Hayes, Director of IDeA, presented the Awards and enthused about the innovation demonstrated in the entries for this year’s Awards.

The Awards demonstrated that accurate and reliable locational information really is at the heart of delivering the government’s Transformational Government agenda. Through the Awards process, local authorities showed how they are using the gazetteers for projects ranging from; avoidable contact, flood risk analysis and prevention, targeting of resources to areas of social deprivation, promoting energy efficiency, mapping and monitoring borough migration, investigation of fraudulent benefit claims CRM partnerships, crime and disorder reduction, street scene services, as a unifying tool for local government reorganisation, national concessionary bus pass schemes, ‘Fit Britain’, recycling and waste management, preparations for FiReControl, safeguarding wildlife and ancient monuments, management of street works, and the enforcement of the Environmental Protection Act.

The Exemplar Award categories and winners:

NLPG
• Most creative use - Dartford Borough Council
• Best business process transformation - South Tyneside Council
• Best use of NLPG Data by a partner - Nottingham City Council
• Most improved - London Borough of Lewisham

NSG
• Best streetworks application - London Borough of Camden
• Most innovative use of - Kent Highways Services Alliance

Additional Street Data
• Most creative use of Level 3 NSG - Not awarded
• Most improved - Warwickshire County Council

NLPG and NSG
• Best integration of the NLPG and the NSG - London Borough of Haringey

The winners will be documented into a case studies booklet that will be made available on the NLPG website.

Intelligent Addressing Contact:
Gayle Gander, Head of Marketing
T: +44 (0)207 747 3500, E-mail: queries@nlpg.org.uk
www.intelligent-addressing.co.uk www.nlpg.org.uk www.thensg.org.uk

Photograph shows Nottingham City NLPG Exemplar Award Winners Mary Burton, Data Manager and Gareth Osborne, E-Government Data Assistant.

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