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AI consultation analysis: Sevenoaks District Council Regulation 18 Local Plan
AI consultation analysis: Sevenoaks District Council Regulation 18 Local Plan
Details:
- Company: The Future Fox
- Client: Sevenoaks District Council
- Year: 2023
- Region: England
- Product: AI Consultation Analysis
Service areas:
- Community engagement
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and software solutions
Introduction
Sevenoaks District Council launched a consultation on their Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan, which included proposals to address the District’s future housing and development needs.
Challenges
The consultation received over 5,500 responses, many of which contained comments on multiple sites and policies. Faced with weeks of costly manual analysis, the Council sought an AI solution to efficiently analyse the responses and save both time and money.
Solutions
After successfully piloting The Future Fox AI solution earlier in the year, the Council decided to commission The Future Fox to analyse their Local Plan consultation data.
The Future Fox used cutting-edge AI technologies to produce a coded analysis for each of the 54 sites, producing easy-to-use tables of topics and the number of comments per topic. The whole service took only 3 days, including a manual quality review by The Future Fox team.
The Future Fox used cutting-edge AI technologies to produce a coded analysis for each of the 54 sites, producing easy-to-use tables of topics and the number of comments per topic. The whole service took only 3 days, including a manual quality review by The Future Fox team.
Results
The solution was 60 times faster than the Council’s workflow of manually categorising comments, summarising and reporting, and equal if not better in accuracy.
The AI-generated reports were presented to the Council’s Development and Conservation Advisory Committee.
The planning team at Sevenoaks District Council noted that meeting the reporting deadline would have been highly unlikely without The Future Fox’s AI Consultation Analysis service.
The AI-generated reports were presented to the Council’s Development and Conservation Advisory Committee.
The planning team at Sevenoaks District Council noted that meeting the reporting deadline would have been highly unlikely without The Future Fox’s AI Consultation Analysis service.
Through this work, Sevenoaks District Council not only achieved significant time and cost savings but also demonstrated the potential of AI to revolutionise stakeholder engagement. It is a glimpse into the future of public engagement
Hannah Gooden
Planning Policy Team Leader, Sevenoaks District Council
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