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Statement on the National Spatial Address Infrastructure (NSAI)
Statement by Communities and Local Government on 1 June 2007.
The Department has been considering its role in the proposed National Spatial Address Infrastructure. During last year we consulted government departments on the core specification for addressing and continued to discuss this with Ordnance Survey and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA).
The Department has noted that there have continued to be improvements in the main address products produced by the Ordnance Survey and the IDeA and we expect this to continue. We also note that, although there are still challenges posed by addressing, local authorities are able to deliver efficiencies and government departments are able to deliver their business without the NSAI. On balance, considering the competing demands on departmental resources, we have concluded that we should not carry out any further work on the NSAI at this time.
In the meantime we will continue to encourage Ordnance Survey and IDeA to further their improvements, and would support new initiatives to improve addressing infrastructure that might arise through the Transformational Government agenda.
