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Building CATEGORIES 

SUBCATEGORIES 

Climate

Natural world

Population

Water & sanitation

Energy

Land ownership

Transport network

Building Stock 

Agriculture

Industry

Culture

Commerce

Location

Use

Type

Age

Size / Shape

Design / Build

Team

Energy

Greenery

Planning

Demolition

Like me?

SUBCATEGORIES 

Within our 12 main categories we are collecting over 50 subcategories of information. These are shown below. If you'd like to help us just click on a building on our map, choose a category of interest (if ready for upload) on our map page and fill in an information you can. Every entry will help.  

Below we have given a very rough indication of how hard we think entering information is likely to be. 'Like Me?' for example is classified as 'Easy' as you just need to tick the box if you like the building. 'Age' however is classed as 'Hard', as it requires either specialist knowledge or, in this case, historical research. For more information on any of our categories click the relevant coloured box. 

Location

Building Name

Building Number

Address

Postcode

OSM centroid 

UPRN 

Toid no.

Difficulty level Easy-Hard

Use

  • Current Landuse (order) *

  • Current Landuse (group)

  • Current Landuse (class) 

  • Current Landuse (mixed)

  • Number of Units 

Easy-Medium

Type

Building Type/Original use

Medium

Age

  • Estimated start date *

  • Earliest start date

  • Latest start date

  • Front/facade date

  • Source

Hard

Size

  • Area

  • Height *

  • Storeys

  • Width

  • Plot Area

Easy- Medium

Shape

  • Plan shape

  • Roof shape *

  • Street positioning

Easy-Medium

Construction

  • Construction method

  • Materials *

  • % Facade glazing

  • Construction/Design team

  • Major refurb teams

  • BIM

Easy- Hard

Energy

  • EPC *

  • BREEAM

  • DEC

  • Last major retrofit

Medium-Hard

Greenery

  • Gardens *

  • Trees

  • Green roofs

  • Green walls

  • Parks/Green spaces

  • Protected greenery

Easy - Hard

Planning

Easy - Hard

  • Planning portal ref

  • GHLER ref

  • NHLE url

  • Listed building *

  • Scheduled monument

  • Locally listed *

  • Conservation area

  • Site of special interest                     

Demolitions

  • Is demolition proposed?*

  • Is demolition pending

  • Previous constructions & demolition dates

Medium- Hard

Like me?

  • Do you like the building and think we should
    reuse it?
    ​ *

Easy

During 2018/19 we will be releasing our 12 categories for testing in three 

stages. Firstly Location, Age, Size & Like me? Then Use, Type, Shape 

& Planning, and finally Construction, Energy, Greenery & Demolitions. Subcategories marked with an asterisk* are those for which we're planning to visualise collected data over the next year.

We need to keep our collection as efficient, effective and simple as possible but if there is high demand for a relevant additional subcategory we will try to include it. You can let us know here.

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