Case Study: Banbury Town Council achieves modern GIS asset management and major claims reduction with Ordnance Survey

Banbury Town Council - Customer Case Study

Banbury Town Council, a town council serving about 46,000 residents, faced fragmented, paper-based maps and no comprehensive land terrier or graphical tree-inspection data. To modernize asset and service management it adopted a GIS approach using Ordnance Survey mapping under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) and data products such as OS MasterMap and ADDRESS-POINT to bring its estate and service areas into a digital, spatial system.

Working with Ordnance Survey-sourced data and a commissioned GIS survey, the council built a land terrier, overlaid HM Land Registry extents, added deeds and tree-inspection records, and acquired aerial photography to detect encroachments. The Ordnance Survey-enabled solution is now used across cemeteries, grounds maintenance, tree inspections and more, giving contractors up-to-date site data, revealing surplus land, improving risk management and cutting claims from £40,000 to £2,000 over four years.

Banbury Town Council

Mark Recchia

Town Clerk