Databricks solution | Housing and public sector

Turn fragmented housing data into place-based intelligence.

Bring housing, EPC, planning, environmental, geographical and intervention data into one governed Databricks application.

Housing Intelligence helps policy, programme and analytical teams compare areas, identify priorities, record decisions and build a stronger evidence base for housing investment and place-based intervention.

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Demonstration environment uses public and synthetic data. Production deployments are configured around the customer's own data, governance and access requirements.

The problem

Housing decisions depend on data held across different systems

Housing and place-based programmes frequently rely on information distributed across national datasets, local systems, spreadsheets, supplier platforms and individual analytical teams.

Property characteristics may sit in one source, EPC information in another, planning constraints elsewhere and programme interventions in separately maintained files. This makes it difficult to answer straightforward questions consistently:

Which places should be prioritised?
Where are the greatest concentrations of inefficient homes?
Which properties may be affected by planning or environmental constraints?
Where has intervention already taken place?
How do conditions compare across local authorities?
Which evidence supports the next funding or investment decision?

Housing Intelligence creates a governed analytical layer that connects these datasets and makes them easier to explore, compare and act upon.

Who it is for

Designed for housing, place and programme teams

Central government

Explore national and regional patterns, programme coverage and potential intervention priorities.

Combined authorities

Compare constituent councils and create a consistent regional evidence base.

Local authorities

Understand local housing conditions and investigate areas, properties and interventions.

Housing and retrofit programmes

Connect property, delivery, energy and programme information.

Policy and analytical teams

Explore governed data without relying on repeated spreadsheet extracts.

Investment and funding teams

Build evidence around need, location, constraints and expected programme reach.

See it in use

From national overview to local intervention

Housing Intelligence geographic overview showing housing and property indicators across regions and local authorities — Explore housing and property indicators across regions and local authorities.

Housing Intelligence priority analysis comparing EPC performance, planning information and local constraints — Compare EPC performance, planning information and local constraints to identify priority areas.

Housing Intelligence executive overview showing a national summary across local authorities — See a national summary of place intervention priorities, with decisions and interventions recorded through Lakebase-backed writeback.

Key capabilities

Everything needed to move from data to decision

Interactive geospatial exploration

Explore housing and property indicators at national, regional, local-authority and smaller geographical levels.

Housing and EPC intelligence

Analyse energy performance, property characteristics and the distribution of housing conditions.

Local-authority comparison

Compare councils and regions through consistent measures and governed definitions.

Planning and environmental context

Bring relevant planning, geographical and environmental constraints into the same analytical view.

Priority analysis

Combine indicators to identify places or property groups requiring further investigation.

Intervention tracking

Record programme decisions, notes, actions and intervention status through a Lakebase-backed writeback layer.

Role-based access

Apply access rules so users see the information appropriate to their organisation, geography or function.

Governed data foundation

Use Unity Catalog to support controlled access, lineage and consistent data ownership.

Example data

Configured around the data available to your organisation

Domestic and non-domestic EPCProperty and address informationHousing stock characteristicsPlanning applications and constraintsAdministrative and statistical boundariesRetrofit projects and interventionsEnvironmental and flood-risk informationSmart-meter and energy dataIndoor-environment monitoringLocal programme and operational dataFunding and delivery informationPublic open data

Not every deployment requires every dataset. Discovery identifies the minimum combination needed to support the customer's priority decisions.

How it works

A configurable application on a governed data platform

Connect data

Ingest approved public, local and operational sources.

Standardise and govern

Apply consistent identifiers, definitions, quality controls and access policies.

Create reusable models

Build curated housing, geography, programme and intervention datasets.

Explore and decide

Use maps, comparisons, filters and programme views.

Record action

Capture notes, decisions and interventions through controlled writeback.

Deployment options

Start with a focused pilot

Demonstration

A guided session using the existing demonstration environment.

Configured pilot

A defined pilot using selected customer data, geographies and user groups.

Indicative duration: four to eight weeks, subject to data access and security requirements.

Production deployment

A governed deployment integrated with the organisation's Databricks environment, identity model and operating processes.

Related delivery evidence

Informed by live public-sector delivery

Get in touch

Explore what Housing Intelligence could show about your area

A demonstration can be tailored around the decisions, datasets and users that matter to your organisation.

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