Planning consideration

National underground asset register

The Geospatial Commission, part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, is building a digital map of underground pipes and cables that will revolutionise the way we install, maintain, operate and repair our buried infrastructure - the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).

Work on this has been paused

The NUAR is available via a portal for those involved in 'digging' to refer to. DSIT are keen for 'planning' to be a use case to consider wider applications for the NUAR and are looking at running a discovery in 2025.

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• Design stage: Backlog
• Tags:
  • infrastructure
  • development risk

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• Github: Join the discussion
• Synonyms:
  • NUAR
• Legislation: No legislation added
• Expected number of records: Unknown
• Frequency of updates: Unknown
• Useful links: No useful links added
• Technical specification: No specification added

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Background information

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process, where we research and answer specific questions to help us collect more information.

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• Kieran Wint (16 April 2025)

  The National underground asset register (NUAR) is available via a portal for those involved in 'digging' to refer to. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) are keen for 'planning' to be a use case to consider wider applications for the NUAR and are looking at running a discovery in 2025.

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Last updated: 2025-02-10 17:10:05