Planning and development

Councils across the UK hold an incredible wealth of data but have been slow to mirror the private sector in optimising this data as a strategic and operational tool to […]

Every local authority is tasked with hundreds of functions, and through individual transformation programmes many are redesigning them to provide better, cheaper services. There are hundreds of councils across England […]

The Alpha stage of the project will be the development of a digital planning tool (the Tool) prototype to support the SME housing building industry. The project objective is to […]

Across local government generally there’s a lack of skills in digital commissioning; recent engagements have evidenced gaps in understanding / knowledge on: how to most effectively use commercial agreements procurement […]

Local Government organisations use a broad range of website platforms to provide information and online services to local citizens and businesses.  Many of these platforms are limited by proprietary formats, […]

Problem: councils struggle to implement modern APIs for local address lookup which resolve unique property reference numbers (UPRNs), so where digital services are developed by or in collaboration with third […]

There are problems for local authorities looking to adopt chatbot and AI solutions; There is no shared understanding of the technology and its advantages/disadvantages as a solution to key issues.  […]

There is an increasing need for reliable data on proposed and approved development in order to measure progress toward housing delivery and other Government priorities. Obtaining even limited data on […]

Suffolk County Council and our partners need to safeguard front line services by ensuring that we execute back office work in the most effective and efficient way possible.   We want […]

The problem is that the planning service is provided by a number of out of date systems and processes that are not linked together. This provides a confusing, chaotic, opaque […]

Working in partnership, all authorities have investigated options available and explored the benefits of adopting new approach for communication technologies, together with utilising the benefits of a partnership approach to […]