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Digital Planning: Developing planning applications specifications in the open 

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The first collaborative sessions with the planning community to develop data specifications for planning applications have taken place. Find out about the ambition, the progress being made and how you can get involved.

Digital Planning: applying digital principles and innovation to transform England’s planning system 

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The Digital Planning programme in MHCLG is transforming the future of planning. Find out how standardised data, innovation, collaboration and enhanced use of digital tools are reshaping England's planning system to make it more efficient and inclusive.

Data Hackathon: Exploring how open data can help transform the planning system

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Find out how a recent hackathon was used to start to build an app, based on open planning datasets, which could be used to help identify brownfield land for development.

Using data design to transform the planning application process: get involved

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In order to make the planning applications process smoother and more efficient we need to ensure the right data is available, in the right format. In this post the Data Design team explain how they are now working to develop new data standards and are keen to collaborate with the planning community to create specifications that work for everyone.

Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process

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Planning documents often contain vast amounts of valuable information, but accessing and using this data can be challenging. Artificial intelligence offers a potentially promising solution to extract key information and insights, and this post talks about how the Digital Planning Programme is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process.

PropTech Innovation Fund: how it's helped identify barriers to adoption of digital engagement tools and the role of government and partners to reduce them

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Through Rounds 1-3 of the PropTech Innovation Fund, we have funded 65 pilots involving 47 different LPAs. This blog post outlines the top five barriers identified through our pilots and research. If these are addressed, we believe they will help enable the adoption of digital engagement tools at scale. 

DLUHC announces allocation of funding for council-led initiatives advancing innovative digital planning services

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The DLUHC Digital Planning Programme is supporting further Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) through the latest funding round for digital services to improve planning.  In this blog post, we announce allocation of funding for council-led initiatives advancing innovative digital planning services.

Accelerating the adoption of Digital Citizen Engagement tools in planning: Insights from DLUHC’s PropTech Innovation Fund

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PropTech Innovation Fund Round 2: 28 pilots 39 Local Authorities 20 PropTech suppliers Funding allowed local planning authorities to deliver a digital engagement project addressing one of five themes: Masterplanning Council-Led Development Estate Regeneration Community Development Wildcard Pilots

As part of the wider DLUHC Digital Planning programme, Round 2 of the PropTech Innovation Fund was launched in March 2022 working with 36 LPA partners and 20 Property Technology (PropTech) companies to accelerate the adoption of digital tools and services in the planning process. Discover more about key insights from funded projects in this blog post.

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

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13 Local Authority Projects, 8 PropTech suppliers. Funding allowed local authorities to use digital tools to: 1) make the planning process more open and accessible 2) boost public engagement 3) gather evidence around the barriers to scaling adoption of digital tools. Digital Planning Logo

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.