Community Grants Service

This project aimed to combine the process of users submitting grant applications with back office systems to ensure a seamless, timely and efficient process. Like many councils, Newcastle City Council […]

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Reducing Invalid Planning Applications (Beta)

Lambeth Council are leading on a project to design a system that reduces the number of invalid application submissions. They also hope to make the current system more transparent and […]

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Digital Site Notices

This project, led by Camden Council, is formerly known as Digital Placed Based Engagement. It focusses on producing a working digital planning notice that allows users to access planning notices […]

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Back Office Planning System (Discovery)

This discovery aimed to understand how a cross-authority solution, potentially providing back-end case management, transactional functions and a database, could unlock wider transformation of the planning system. Planning services are […]

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Housing Repairs (Discovery)

This discovery aimed to define a common service pattern for housing repairs and understand barriers to adoption of digital repairs services. The project also explored which service elements are best […]

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Back Office Planning System (Alpha)

Following on from a successful discovery, this collaborative alpha project explores potential solutions for a back office planning system (BOPS). The project is delivered in Agile, using a user-centred approach […]

The Back Office Planning Alpha team at work

Housing Repairs (Alpha)

Following on from a successful discovery, this collaborative alpha project explores potential solutions for a common service pattern for the housing repairs service. The project is delivered in Agile, using […]

Reducing Invalid Planning Applications (Alpha)

Every year, councils receive thousands of planning submissions. Application validation and invalid applications represent a common problem for all of them. The alpha project aims to come up with a […]

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London Borough of Croydon

There’s no pan-local government ‘playbook’ describing how to make code sharing work in practice. We believe this discourages collaboration, and leads to painful reinventions of the wheel in councils where it’s tried.   Our Discovery project will work through the issues that […]

LGSS (Northamptonshire County Council)

Open source communities and practices in technology have been around since the early 1960s with many academics distributing free and open software to encourage and support openness and co-operation. As […]

Roayl Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Internet technologies around IoT are promising radical improvements in how we serve our residents and businesses. This gives rise to a range of emerging opportunities to achieve significant social and […]

London Borough of Camden

Like many other authorities Camden’s Planning Service is an end to end service that covers all aspects of planning from plan making (strategic planning, local plans, planning guidance and supporting […]

Wycombe District Council

The purpose of planning is to ensure that the right development happens in the right place at the right time, benefitting communities, the economy and the environment. Large quantities of […]

Wycombe District Council

The purpose of planning is to ensure that the right development happens in the right place at the right time, benefitting communities, the economy and the environment. The benefits and […]

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

This discovery project breaks into three parts a common problem facing local authorities; The first part of the common problem is understanding whether voice truly represents a long-term change in […]

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

Across all local authorities there are significant numbers of staff spending their time out of the office. These staff rely on systems which create as many barriers to doing an […]

East Lindsey District Council

East Lindsey District Council alongside Boston Borough Council and South Holland District Council cover 2,250 km² of East Lincolnshire with a combined population of over 300,000. The sparsely distributed population […]