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One connected record of UK public data.
Government records say what happened. They often do not say where it happened, or which company was involved, in a way a computer can link up. That one gap blocks thirteen useful tools. UK GroundTruth fills it.
WHERE
East Devon 21/0751/FUL
one point on the map
WHO
SOFTCAT LTD - FCA
one identified organisation
What is actually broken.
None of these is a missing dataset. The data exists and is free. Each one is a missing link, and there are only two kinds.
The flood people don't know where
The Environment Agency has objected to 23,336 building plans because of flood risk. The list has no address, no postcode and no point on a map.
A ministry can't say which sites
Housebuilders owe councils £1,491,818,575 for schools, roads and affordable homes. Not one record says which site the money is for.
Councils get maps they can't read
School places are planned across 3,651 local areas, but nobody publishes where those areas begin and end. £1.096bn of school building money is shared out using them.
Nobody knows who owns the flood defences
England has 141,629 recorded flood defences. The owner is listed as "Unknown" on 73.7% of them.
It is the same job the postcode did: no new information, just one shared way of saying "here", and that unlocked everything.
Thirteen questions it makes answerable.
Each addresses a gap the responsible department has documented itself. Every dataset behind them answers an anonymous request: no account, no key, no approval.
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Sentinel
Public procurement integrity and collusion detection
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Compass
SEND demand forecasting and transport optimisation
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Plumbline
Planning pipeline truth and delivery measurement
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Highwater
Floodplain development monitoring
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Catchment
School place planning at the geography that matters
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Junction
Unified grid connection queue intelligence
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Ledger
Developer contributions, made mappable
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Bellwether
Provider concentration and failure exposure
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Sightline
Statutory consultee advice, and what happened to it
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Lastmile
Connectivity at new homes
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Bulwark
Flood defence ownership and condition
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Watchman
Insolvency exposure across public suppliers
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Baseline
Sewage spills, adjusted for the weather
How they help each other
A company goes bust.
One fact sets off several questions at once, each using data anyone can already download.
- 01 Watchman spots it The official insolvency notice includes the company number, so there is no guessing which company it is.
- 02 Bellwether checks care Does it run care homes, children's homes or special schools? Which councils just lost capacity?
- 03 Sentinel checks contracts Which public contracts does it hold, with whom, and worth how much?
- 04 Ledger checks building If it is a housebuilder, what did it still owe councils, and had it paid?
- You know the damage within minutes. Today the public sector usually finds out by reading the news.
Built once. Given away.
Read the research, see the systems, and the problems they solve.
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