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AddressBase Premium sees its first operational deployment at HampshireFire and Rescue Service using software supplied by Aligned Assets

Woking, Surrey 9th November2011 – Aligned Assets are proud to announce that having taken receiptof the latest Symphony Bluelight software, Hampshire Fire and RescueService have become the inaugural user of the UK’s first evercentralised and definitive address database.

After the historic agreement between the Ordnance Survey and the LocalGovernment Group that saw the amalgamation of all local government,Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail address data into what is known as the‘National Address Gazetteer’, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service are thefirst to start using ‘AddressBase Premium’, the most detailed of theproducts derived from this national database.

This data, the most advanced ever created and available to theentire public sector, will give them knowledge of every property,street and piece of land across the County, along with countless‘non-addressable’ objects such as bus stops and park benches, all ofwhich are designed to aid effective mobilising, target community safetyand deliver focused risk reduction activity.

Because the bulk of the data in AddressBase Premium will come fromlocal government, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service will be in receiptof information about proposed developments, so even before a propertyis occupied, they will know about it. Additionally, the wealth ofhistoric information will help in finding buildings that are vacant,since these can still be located using their previous names.

One of the key elements within this new dataset are the UPRNs(unique property reference numbers), which are attached to each recordupon creation. This will enable Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service tocreate definitive links between all their systems, as well as withother organisations such as the police force, ambulance service, local,and central government.

Speaking about the use of AddressBase Premium, John Hinton,Community Risk Intelligence Data Manager at Hampshire Fire and RescueService said, “This development will allow us to operate with the mostcomplete and data rich gazetteer available, update our community safetydatabase, coordinate data flow and meet government expectations fordata sharing”

To find out more visit www.aligned-assets.co.uk

Contact : = Carl Hancock, Aligned Assets

0870 750 8750

carl.hancock@aligned-assets.co.uk