Case studies

Keep Wales Tidy is a charity that has been developing a brand-new litter data methodology, taking pride in improving public spaces across Wales and protecting the environment now and for the future.

Southern Housing is one of the largest housing associations in the UK, owning and managing over 80,000 homes across London, the Midlands, and the South East.

A not-for-profit housing provider, its social purpose is the foundation for all its work. Southern Housing is determined to maximise...

SimAnalytica, an OS Channel Partner, provides place-based decision intelligence software applications, to help public and private sector organisations accelerate the transition to net zero and build climate resilience. High-quality OS location data is a core component in its foundational technolo...

The importance of access to green outdoor spaces in relation to health and wellbeing is clear. However, deprived areas are less likely to have access to green space and gardens.

In 2021 the Government allocated £9 million of funding to a ‘Levelling Up Parks Fund’ to help...

Transport for London (TfL) have experimented with an e-scooter rental trial, to better understand the environmental outcomes of alternative transport.

Data was collected to assess the results of the trial and help inform future policy.

Natural England, the agency responsible for helping protect England’s natural environment, have announced that all new planning proposals covering Hampshire’s Solent waterways and wetlands, must be “nitrate neutral”.

Nitrate pollution, often caused by chemical ferti...

Greenspace is the urban ecosystem – protecting our biodiversity, our physical and our mental health.

Greenspaces are also, according to Scotland’s parks and greenspace charity, greenspace scotland, a potential source of local green energy.

ParkPower is a Scotland-wide pr...

Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) works with Ordnance Survey (OS) to make sure the UK has secure, clean and affordable energy supplies.

DECC has combined data from a number of different sources to create the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) which is used to eff...

With the Scottish Government's ambitious targets for increasing renewable energy generation up to 2020, Scotland’s onshore wind generation will continue to grow.

This case study shows how effective guidance, utilising spatial data, can help local Government Authorities to deliver thi...