The National Register of Social Housing (NROSH)

NROSH now holds data on
1.95 million properties. That's nearly 50% of social housing stock.

NROSH 2008 regional seminar content now available

Materials used in the recent NROSH seminars (September - November 2008) provide a set of useful resources for NROSH implementation and internal communication. Please download materials from the list of links below.

Full set of NROSH 2008 regional seminar slides (a great resource for selling NROSH internally)

Frequently-asked questions: Registered Social Landlords

Frequently-asked questions: technical issues (for RSLs and Local Authorities/ALMOs)

Regional data collection slides (see how much NROSH data your local authority area has submitted to date)

Social housing at risk of flooding (regional maps based on NROSH data with flood risk indicator attached):
Part 1 (East of England, Gt Yarmouth, London, Newham London Borough, Nth East, Nth Tyneside, Yorkshire & Humber and Kingston upon Hull)
Part 2 (Nth West, Warrington, Sth West, Exeter, East Midlands, Leicester, West Midlands, Tamworth, Sth East, Reading)

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Target dates

To fully realise the benefits of NROSH it is important that all landlords are submitting complete and accurate data. But please don't forget that we're not asking for all NROSH data fields to be supplied at the moment. For further details of your requirements by the target dates please see this table.

NROSH-Online

If you wish to supply data to NROSH, generate NROSH statistical reports or download raw NROSH data, please visit: www.nrosh-online.net

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Background

NROSH collects social housing property level data from England's Local Authorities (LAs) and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs). When complete, NROSH will become a single data repository of social housing stock covering the whole of England to provide better quality, more flexible and consistent data for analysis and reporting as well as reducing the data reporting burden on data providers.

NROSH is a joint initiative between the Housing Corporation and Communities and Local
Government and aims to deliver quality data to providers and stakeholders across the sector.

The approach employed by NROSH is to collect data on individual properties, by extracting data directly from housing management systems through software "toolkits". Further details on toolkits are available on the CLG website.

For full information on NROSH data standards, field definitions, XML schema and toolkits, refer to the data standards section of the NROSH website via the above link.

For the Housing Corporation, NROSH will replace the vast majority of the collection of the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR). For CLG, NROSH will replace sections of the Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA), Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA), Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Claim Form (HRASC) and Housing Flow Reconciliation (HFR) LA Statistical Returns as well as a reduction in ad-hoc requests.

The Director of Regulation at the Housing Corporation, Clare Miller, recently encouraged RSLs to submit data to NROSH by stating;

"The Housing Corporation (HC) is working towards full implementation of NROSH from 2009/10 and is strongly encouraging RSLs to work with the HC. The HC is planning to replace the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR) with NROSH from 2009/10, with the last RSR parallel run in 2010/11.

From now on the RSR will be frozen to the 2008 data standards to align the RSR to NROSH data standards Release 4. In late 2007, the HC will run a series of seminars to provide further information."

NROSH data can be accessed via NROSH-Online, http://www.nrosh-online.net/ - a dedicated data dissemination tool administered by CLG.

Help Desks

NROSH HA Data Support Help Desk
Please use this help desk to assist you to get started with NROSH and increase the quantity and quality of the data you supply. Data support staff are there to deal with all your questions about NROSH data standards. They also advise on the use of the NROSH to RSR Facility to pre-populate your RSR with NROSH data.

Phone: 020 7627 5117
Email: NROSHHADataSupport@Forvus.co.uk

NROSH Technical Help Desk
Please use this help desk if you have queries about the more technical aspects of NROSH including toolkits, configuration, mapping and data submission via Interform. Technical staff also provide advice on the use of NROSH-Online, as well as usernames and passwords for this service.

Phone: 020 7944 3294
Email: nrosh.helpdesk@communities.gsi.gov.uk

For emails, please ensure that the subject heading is NROSH + <your query>.

NROSH 2008 regional seminar slides (2757 Kb)