The Local Government Information House (LGIH) works with local government to develop national geographical and spatial information infrastructure projects. These enable councils to deliver better local services. LGIH works with councils, emergency services, national parks, conservation boards and passenger transport authorities.

 As an intermediary between the public and the private sector, LGIH is in a position to negotiate with private companies on behalf of local authorities. It manages joint procurements on behalf of councils by managing the procurement process, letting contracts to suppliers and managing the resulting contractual frameworks.

LGIH concentrates on core projects that have maximum benefit for the whole of local government. To this end, LGIH focuses on geographical information-related projects, as the standardisation of this type of data affects more than 80 per cent of what local government does.

LGIH has developed and implemented several groundbreaking projects nationally across local government, resulting in faster and more effective service delivery:

• Mapping Services Agreement (MSA)
• National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
• National Street Gazetteer (NSG).

Who we work with

We aim our work at local government and emergency services, although our end user is ultimately the citizen. Specific groups of people who benefit from our work include:

• local government, particularly colleagues involved in transformation of services
• chief executives
• gazetteer creator and user communities
• fire and police
• national parks and conservation boards
• passenger transport
• private sector organisations
• elected representatives to our boards.