Which local authority am i in

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Find my Local Authority. Carlow County Council. Cavan County Council. Clare County Council. Cork City Council. Code Point Open and ONSPD find the centre point of the set of addresses with the same postcode, and place that within a single local authority boundary.

Whereas NSPL matches the postcode centre point to a lower geography, and uses a hierarchy of geographies to assign the postcode to a local authority. This means that each postcode is assigned a single local authority. Unfortunately, nearly , or 1. This includes more than English addresses which are attributed to a Scottish or Welsh local authority when using the postcode alone. NSPL has similar issues. A service asking for information may ask the user to choose the local authority from a list of local authorities.

This approach places a burden on the user, and does not work well for many people in many situations. The user may not know the local authority for an address which is not where they live, especially if that place is close a local authority boundary. In such cases the user will either need to search for the information elsewhere, or may resort to making a guess. To reliably direct a user to their local authority, or send data associated with a place to a local authority, you should use a gazetteer to find the Unique Property Reference Number UPRN for the address.

You can then use the gazetteer, or another dataset to find the local authority for the UPRN. The data from one of the AddressBase products can be incorporated into your service, though this will require operational support as the data changes frequently, and is updated every 6 weeks. It is currently difficult to automate the process of ordering and updating a new copy of AddressBase data into a local database. The privacy of the user and sensitivity of the addresses being looked-up should be considered when using a third-party API.

A service with a user interface should follow the address lookup pattern from the GOV.