The Digital Planning team

The Digital Planning Team at MHCLG

What we've learnt from the PropTech Innovation Fund round 1 digital citizen engagement pilots

The Digital Planning team, 3 April 2023 - Digital Citizen Engagement, Digital Planning, PropTech

Round 1 of the PropTech Innovation Fund funded 13 pioneering Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) across England to work with 8 Property Technology (PropTech) partners to use innovative digital tools to make the planning process more open and accessible. The projects aimed to boost public engagement, while gathering evidence about the barriers to allow local authorities to adopt digital tools at scale.

15 council led projects funded to scale digital solutions which aim to improve citizen engagement within the planning process

The Digital Planning team, 23 March 2023 - Digital Citizen Engagement, Digital Planning, PropTech

We’re pleased to announce 15 more council-led projects have been awarded a total of £3.2 million of funding through Round 3 of the PropTech Innovation Fund. 27 Local Planning Authority (LPAs) are involved in the pilots, some of which see multiple LPAs working in partnership.

DLUHC awards Local Planning Authorities funding to improve the digital services they use for planning applications

The Digital Planning team, 1 March 2023 - Digital Planning, Planning Software

DLUHC is funding 19 more councils to lead and take part in digital projects that will encourage quicker planning decisions and improve digital planning software.

DLUHC Housing and Planning Minister visits Buckinghamshire Council to see new Digital Planning software in action

The Digital Planning team, 30 January 2023 - Digital Planning

DLUHC’s Housing and Planning Minister, Lucy Frazer, visited Buckinghamshire Council on the 26 January to learn more about Buckinghamshire’s experience of being part of the Open Digital Planning (ODP) project, demo new user-centred Digital Planning services and hear more about the council’s wider ideas for streamlining the planning system as part of the department’s Digital Planning Programme.

The 12 Milestones of DLUHC Digital Planning 2022

The Digital Planning team, 19 December 2022 - Digital Land, Digital Planning, PropTech

There may not be any partridges or pear trees in sight as we reach the end of 2022, but the DLUHC Digital Planning team have reflected back on the year’s 12 stand out moments to acknowledge a fantastic year of work in collaboration with Local Planning Authorities and industry partners.

DLUHC continues to support Local Planning Authorities to scale the adoption of digital citizen engagement tools

The Digital Planning team, 16 December 2022 - Digital Planning, PropTech

The PropTech Engagement Fund continues to build on its success as we launch the next round of funding for 9 projects under the Digital Planning Continuous Funding Model. This most recent funding will see select projects from previous rounds explore ideas around how to further scale the adoption of digital tools and increase efficiencies when undertaking planning consultation projects across the country.

The Planning Software Improvement Fund is open for applications

The Digital Planning team, 16 November 2022 - Digital Planning

The Planning Software Improvement Fund aims to help Local Planning Authorities in England (LPAs) to improve the digital services they use for the submission and assessment of planning applications - the development management side of local planning.

PropTech sector wants to help deliver Housing and Planning ambitions

The Digital Planning team, 21 October 2022 - Digital Planning, PropTech

In the summer the DLUHC Digital Planning team held a virtual Roundtable event to connect senior DLUHC officials with a wide range of voices to help the Property Technology (PropTech) sector understand the government’s levelling up agenda and discuss where their insights, experience and solutions could help.

Introducing the planning data platform

The Digital Planning team, 28 September 2022 - Digital Land, Digital Land Services, Digital Planning

Data is at the heart of the DLUHC Digital Planning team’s mission to modernise England's planning system. The team’s planning data platform has moved into the beta phase, and is now available on planning.data.gov.uk.

New user-centred services for planning applications are now live on council websites

The Digital Planning team, 1 August 2022 - Digital Planning

Three new DLUHC funded digital planning services, co-designed by a pioneering group of local councils, are now live on the websites of Buckinghamshire, Lambeth and Southwark Councils. 

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