Cambridge, UK – LANDCLAN, the real-world data and place analytics company, announced today a strategic partnership with The Improvement Service to market and distribute data products.
LANDCLAN will become an official market supplier of The Improvement Service data for Scotland. They have made two data products available for the market: The Improvement Service’s value-added data for Scotland and LANDCLAN verified value-added data product for Scotland from The Improvement Service.
Ron Wilkinson, Spatial Information Service Programme Manager at the Improvement Service, explained the reason for partnering with LANDCLAN, stating, “LANDCLAN was the obvious choice for the Improvement Service due to their expertise in the land and property market and beyond. The Improvement Service believes that this long-term partnership is the best way to deliver quality-assured data and intelligence to a wide range of users, leveraging LANDCLAN’s existing platform and extensive customer base in the land and property sector.”
Components of the The Improvement Service added-value datasets include:
- Planning application data, including the type of application, site boundaries, and timeline for application progress.
- Building standards register data, indicating the status of each warrant application, such as “received,” “decided,” “commenced,” or “completed.”
- Local development plan data, including sub-layers for employment land and housing land, as well as information on supply and delivery records
- Car parking data, featuring four layers of information on spaces and availability of chargers.
- Council asset register.
- Community asset transfer register.
- Street furniture data, supporting filtering, analytics, place-making, crime analysis, and the rollout of 5G infrastructure under the R100 digital connectivity initiative.
Our customers rely on us to deliver a comprehensive perspective on development potential throughout the entire UK market. This enables them to locate suitable sites and assess opportunities with precision. The exceptional work of the Improvement Service in standardizing and validating this data across 34 planning authorities in Scotland is commendable.
ANDY WILLIAMS LANDCLAN
LANDCLAN ‘s verified The Improvement Service data product for Scotland has been appended to their 115Billion data point API. The LANDCLAN API provides content where each attribute is geo-processed to the land parcel, creating a real-world dataset. The spatially joined product for Scotland comprises 3.48 million addresses, 3.79 million buildings, 1.66 million parcels, 178,000 postcodes, and 409 attributes. These attributes include topography, land usage, planning and policies, environmental historic and habitat constraints, infrastructure information, age-based demographics, EPC ratings, house prices, building footprints and heights, crime and deprivation levels, distance to amenities, and climate information.
This content is accessible through four channels: the LANDCLAN GIS MAPS application, the LANDCLAN API, LANDCLAN bulk data download service, and the ESRI marketplace.
LANDCLAN: Empowering individuals and organisations with reliable real-world data and place analytics, enabling informed decision-making. Discover the power of trusted data and unlock new possibilities.
The Improvement Service: The Improvement Service is the ‘go-to’ organisation for local government improvement in Scotland, delivering improvement support that will help councils to provide effective community leadership, strong local governance and deliver high quality, efficient local services. It was set up in 2005 to deliver support and improvement for Scottish Councils and high quality, efficient local services. Working in tandem with Scottish local authorities, The Improvement Service collate, standardise and improve the quality of official registers, and essential information from these registers is released under open government licence.
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