UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Laying the foundations for better local public services
We will go further to redesign our services around the needs of the people using them. This means continuing to prioritise citizen and user needs above professional, organisational and technological silos.
The application window for the Digital Planning Improvement Fund 2025/2026 closed on 30 October 2025. Applications are no longer being accepted. We will onboard successful local planning authorities in February […]
Welcome to our digital citizen engagement toolkit which is designed to support local authorities (LAs) in using digital tools for improved consultations and engagement in planning. Developed with a user-centred […]
Join techUK as they put the spotlight on local government tech innovations, reflect on the digital trends of the past year and make their predictions for 2024.
The Declaration was co-published with 45 organisations on 4 July 2018. This is our ambition for local public services, and our commitment to making it happen. We are a collective […]
In this blog post, we’ll share some reflections from our first roadshow, which visited 5 cities across the UK throughout June and July. The events aimed to inform our plans […]
It’s notoriously difficult to scale innovation around the local public sector. Technology designed for one local authority doesn’t just slide neatly into another, because council systems speak different languages and […]
