A professional body for residential property managers has called on the Government to promote the wider adoption of the unique property reference number (UPRN).
The Institute of Residential Property Management (IRPM) has published an open letter to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick and director of the Geospatial Commission Thalia Baldwin outlining a number of steps it believes should be taken.
UPRNs provide unique identifiers for each address in the country. They are allocated by local authorities and managed nationally by GeoPlace – a joint venture of the Local Government Association and Ordnance Survey – and can be used as a key feature in matching different datasets for service delivery and planning.
By Monidipa Fouzder2021-01-13T11:43:00+00:00
Conveyancing solicitors have signed an open letter urging housing secretary Robert Jenrick to speed up the home buying and selling process by encouraging the widespread adoption of unique property reference numbers (UPRN).
Signatories to the letter, published on the Institute of Residential Property Management’s website, include the Conveyancing Association, a trade body, JMW Solicitors and Bold Legal Group.
Every unit of land and property is allocated a UPRN and geographic coordinates to ensure there is one true record for each address. Local authorities are required to maintain address registers. The address registers, including UPRNs, are submitted to GeoPlace, a central address database. GeoPlace is a limited liability partnership owned by the Local Government Association and Ordnance Survey.