Header Premises and Specific Premise usage
I am having a disagreement with the service manager who says we should only have one premise record PRU with every activity linked to that one "golden record" which I do agree with in principle however, I inherited a system where we have a separate task specific premise set up and then a general premise record for everything else i.e.; for private water supply header premise the premise name would be PWS - The Old Barn and then we would have a general dwelling premise record for The Old Barn and link the two so all PWS activity takes place on the specific PWS record and anything else such as nuisance complaints etc would be recorded against the general dwelling. We also do the same for PPC, Licencing and HMOs. This helps with reporting, returns etc'. II understood this was recommended by Civica as best practice. Can anyone else advise if you do similar or any documentation you may have to support using premises this way thank you
Hi Shirley
Hope you are OK.
We only have 1 premise record for commercial activities – Licensing, Health & Safety and Noise. Residential premises are also on the system for Health and Housing, Noise and ASB. We do have separate records if the main activity is not Food ie a newspaper staff restaurant is separate to the newspaper itself. This came to light when the kitchen of a care home was classed as low risk for Health and Safety, but the home itself was high risk. As long as everything is coded to suit and you can run reports, there is no real right or wrong; just different ways of dealing with them.
Kind Regards
Ann