Specific integration benefits by department | Integration knowledge base

Integration benefits

Listed below are just some of the benefits available to each service area and the wider authority when address data and the UPRN are effectively utilised and integrated.

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Department / Service area	Benefits of integrating for the service	Authority wide benefits
Building control	1. Detection of unauthorised developments 2. Safer, more secure homes and buildings 3. Warmer, more sustainable buildings	6:1 Return on Investment Provides foundation for digital transformation Facilitates creation of single household views of service usage Facilitates multi-agency intelligence sharing Streamlining of public-facing services through online citizen portals Ability to geographically plot service related data and generate location intelligence Makes data-linking possible through the use of persistent identifiers Improved inter-departmental communication Avoidance of duplication, repeated effort, errors in maintaining individual “address lists” Use of the “official,” legally known address Prevention and detection of fraud
Council tax	1. Identifying missing properties and revenue 2. Improving business rates collection 3. Maximising general revenue collection
CRM	1.Address lookup containing legally known properties 2.Creation of online reporting services 3. Improved access to council services
Education management	1.Accurate school distance calculations 2.Creation of School transport plans
Electoral registration	1. Informing Ward boundary reviews 2. Modernisation and accuracy of the register 3. Service efficiencies and accurate property information
Environmental health	1.Identification of unlicenced HMOs 2.Service redesign through data and mobile devices for street scene staff.
Housing	1. Energy retrofitting strategies 2. Improving the standard of living in rented accommodation
Land charges	1. Automated land charge searches 2. Expedited property search process
Planning	1. Improved public access to planning 2. Supports and informs policy making 3. Planning reform and transformation
Refuse collection	1. Route balancing and optimisation 2. Transformation from paper based to digital processes
Social care	1. Proactive, evidence based service delivery 2. Identification of vulnerable households 3. Targeting local services more effectively 4. A facilitator for delivering care services