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Out of date reference to the NLPG plus proposed text for "Activities" section of the article
The "activities" section is out of date, as the NLPG was withdrawn 10 years ago. Suggested text for a revised ‘Activities’ section, the following would be a good set of words:

Activities

GeoPlace is responsible for collating, managing and maintaining the primary UK authoritative geospatial address data and this is made widely available to customers as the AddressBase products and specialist addressing services by Ordnance Survey and its partners.

GeoPlace aggregates all Local Land and Property Gazetteers (LLPGs) created by local authorities adding addresses from Improvement Service in Scotland, Land and Property Services in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man and Channel Islands and integrating datasets from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey amongst others.

Local authorities hold the responsibility as the legal source of addresses in the UK and this means this aggregated data is officially recognised and authoritative.

Each local authority is responsible for creating and maintaining a complete and granular set of all addressable locations in their area. That responsibility to name and number properties and streets is defined in legislation. Street names and property addresses are created as new properties or changes to the built environment take place as part of their planning and development processes.

GeoPlace also oversees the National Street Gazetteer, which was originally created to coordinate streetworks in England and Wales. The NSG’s architecture has a unique referencing system that’s embedded in legislation. At a local level, local highway authorities maintain Local Street Gazetteers (LSGs). Every month, each of the 173 highway authorities in England and Wales upload their LSG data to the NSG hub, together with their Additional Street Data (ASD). All of this information is then compiled by GeoPlace to create the NSG. GeoPlace verifies the data and makes it available to licenced users via a series of download services.

With over 45 million addresses and 1.5 million streets, covering over 40 million buildings and related structures on almost 1.5 million streets, the data held by GeoPlace and available as AddressBase is the most complete and granular view of geospatial addresses available for the UK today.

As part of the legislative process, local authorities consult and share that information with interested parties as appropriate. This includes Royal Mail who then confirm or allocate a postcode and post town. That insight is available from the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF). The PAF contains all postal addresses (but no further geospatial data beyond the postcode) for the UK and this enables Royal Mail to deliver mail and fulfil its obligation to provide a universal postal service. The PAF contains over 30 million business and residential addresses, and these are incorporated by GeoPlace and local authorities and included in AddressBase.

Updates to the PAF are sourced from local authorities – information is added from their street naming and numbering process – or through Royal Mail operations, either through feedback from delivery staff or PAF users. As local authorities have statutory responsibilities for planning and street naming and numbering, information about a property and its address is generally recorded by the local authority first, before becoming available via the Royal Mail.

These addresses are not just for the building itself. They include the granular, specific detail that identifies the location of flats, offices and other recognised subdivisions within each building. GeoPlace holds 2.5 billion data fields for address and street records, including over 80 million links to other datasets and a history of the changes that have occurred on each record. Through a validation and assurance process GeoPlace runs 364 address data checks, 550 street data checks and 1,480 assurance checks on each record before being accepted into the database. This includes checks to ensure UPRNs and USRNs are assigned appropriately and without duplication. Data is enriched and transformed by adding the best attributes from source datasets to enhance the overall quality of the product. It’s updated daily by local authorities, GeoPlace receives over 2 million changes per month. Geodata321 (talk) 15:38, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , that is interesting information which might assist in refreshing both this article and the National Land and Property Gazetteer article. However, changes will need to be supported by references. Can you suggest sources to underpin this information? AllyD (talk) 11:05, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Working on supporting references now - will provide shortly Geodata321 (talk) 16:38, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Below is the revised text suggestion including relevant citations as requested:

GeoPlace is responsible for collating, managing and maintaining the primary UK authoritative geospatial address data and this is made widely available to customers as the AddressBase products and specialist addressing services by Ordnance Survey and its partners.

GeoPlace aggregates all Local Land and Property Gazetteers (LLPGs) created by local authorities adding addresses from Improvement Service in Scotland, Land and Property Services in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man and Channel Islands and integrating datasets from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey amongst others.

Local authorities hold the responsibility as the legal source of addresses in the UK and this means this aggregated data is officially recognised and authoritative.

Each local authority is responsible for creating and maintaining a complete and granular set of all addressable locations in their area. That responsibility to name and number properties and streets is defined in legislation. Street names and property addresses are created as new properties or changes to the built environment take place as part of their planning and development processes.

GeoPlace also oversees the National Street Gazetteer (NSG), which was originally created to coordinate streetworks in England and Wales. The NSG’s architecture has a unique referencing system that is embedded in legislation. At a local level, local highway authorities maintain Local Street Gazetteers (LSGs). Every month, each of the 173 highway authorities in England and Wales uploads their LSG data to the NSG hub, together with their Additional Street Data (ASD). All of this information is then compiled by GeoPlace to create the National Street Gazetteer (NSG). GeoPlace verifies the data and makes it available to licenced users via a series of download services.

With over 45 million addresses and 1.5 million streets, covering over 40 million buildings and related structures on almost 1.5 million streets, the data held by GeoPlace and available as AddressBase is the most complete and granular view of geospatial addresses available for the UK today.

As part of the legislative process, local authorities consult and share that information with interested parties as appropriate. This includes Royal Mail who then confirm or allocate a postcode and post town. That insight is available from the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF). The PAF contains all postal addresses (but no further geospatial data beyond the postcode) for the UK and this enables Royal Mail to deliver mail and fulfil its obligation to provide a universal postal service. The PAF contains over 30 million business and residential addresses, and these are incorporated by GeoPlace and local authorities and included in AddressBase.

Updates to the PAF are sourced from local authorities – information is added from their street naming and numbering process – or through Royal Mail operations, either through feedback from delivery staff or PAF users. As local authorities have statutory responsibilities for planning and street naming and numbering, information about a property and its address is generally recorded by the local authority first, before becoming available via the Royal Mail.

These addresses are not just for the building itself. They include the granular, specific detail that identifies the location of flats, offices and other recognised subdivisions within each building. GeoPlace holds 2.5 billion data fields for address and street records, including over 80 million links to other datasets and the history of the changes that have occurred on each record. Through a validation and assurance process GeoPlace runs 364 address data checks, 550 street data checks and 1,480 assurance checks on each record before being accepted into the database. This includes checks to ensure UPRNs and USRNs are assigned appropriately and without duplication. Data is enriched and transformed by adding the best attributes from source datasets to enhance the overall quality of the product. It’s updated daily by local authorities, GeoPlace receives over 2 million changes per month.

On the 2nd of April 2020, the Government announced that the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) and Unique Street Reference Number (USRN) will be released under Open Government Licence. Additionally, the Open Standards Board, via Government Digital Service (GDS), has mandated that from 1st July 2020, the UPRN and USRN are the public sector standard for referencing and sharing property and street information. and

On 28th July 2021, the Central Digital & Data Office (part of the Cabinet Office) issued new guidance to comply with the UPRN standard. It states that if you work in the public sector and you need to use address data, such as property and street information, then you should follow this guidance.

You must use the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) standard when identifying places in the UK. This allows users to easily cross-reference between different data sets and reduces errors in data exchange and communication. Every addressable location in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales and excluding Northern Ireland) has a UPRN, and using this standard can save money, time, resources and lives. Geodata321 (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)