Services

• Development of a National Address Register (NAR) for the 2011 Census, on behalf of Office for National Statistics (ONS). As subcontractors to Lockheed Martin UK, MGL have been responsible for the development of a national address register (with c.30 million records), derived from three competing products (Royal Mail Postal Address File; National Land and Property Gazetteer and OS Address Layer 2). This has involved processing and de-duplication of between 70-80 million addresses using partitioned parallel servers, management and storage of around half a terabyte of data. This included extraction and use of a full national coverage of OS MasterMap Buildings and General Surfaces theme (itself around 70GB of data).
• Creation of a Level 3 Street Gazetteer for Manchester City Council – MGL designed a methodology, implemented these process to convert existing street data to Level 3 compliant (for inclusion into the National Street Gazetteer), carried out spatial data validation and subsequent reporting and consultancy.
• Manchester-Salford Pathfinder City Centre Residential Market Assessment - MSP commissioned MGL to complete a data cleansing exercise on a variety of market intelligence datasets (e.g. Development Activity records; Land Registry Ownership records; Land Registry Sale Price records; Vacancy, Long Term Vacancy and Turnover; Residential Auctions records; Initial consideration of the Rental Market; and Mortgage availability calculated for case study developments) in order to generate a coherent and accurate baseline assessment, from which important policy decisions were then based.
• Design and Implementation of a Neighbourhood Sustainability Index for Riverside Housing Association MGL designed and developed a detailed methodology for the implementation of a Sustainability model for RHA, based on the review of other studies and available data sources. Key outcomes included: A scalable data model; A set of agreed new neighbourhood areas, based on MSOA census boundaries and aggregations of LSOA areas (where higher spatial resolution was required); An agreed Ranking methodology for generation of Domain Indexes and an overall Sustainability Index; An agreed series of data domains and data-sets for use in the model; Collation of a national data coverage; Generation of a Sustainability Index for each of the RHA neighbourhoods and Delivery of Data Templates and Help files for use in subsequent years (for future Sustainability Index calculation).
• Design and Development of a Neighbourhood Vitality Index for East Lancashire - Elevate commissioned MGL to prepare options for and then oversee the implementation of an index to measure the vitality of neighbourhoods. This Neighbourhood Vitality Index (NVI) related to both the Intervention Areas and also across the broader footprint of Pennine Lancashire. The NVI was used by Elevate to:
  • Inform the need for different types of housing market interventions
  • Review the effectiveness of previous interventions/programmes and assist in refining/focussing them for optimum impact
  • Demonstrate longer-term progress towards securing sustainable markets.
  • Assist in disaggregating the impact of the HMR programme interventions from other actions affecting neighbourhoods