Details:
- Company: Scott Logic
- Client: Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Year: 2023
- Region: UK-wide
Service areas:
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and software solutions
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
- Organisational digital transformation
Introduction
The recently introduced Levelling Up and Regeneration Act is seeking to change how planning is conducted across the UK. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is driving digital planning reform to support the legislation.
Challenges
MHCLG set the following objectives:
- Redesign processes, test ideas, and provide evidence to support policy colleagues and ministers as the draft bill works its way through parliament.
- Establish the right environment, processes and artefacts to allow delivery and policy teams to do their best work, and to work collaboratively as one team.
- Redesign processes, test ideas, and provide evidence to support policy colleagues and ministers as the draft bill works its way through parliament.
- Establish the right environment, processes and artefacts to allow delivery and policy teams to do their best work, and to work collaboratively as one team.
Solutions
Scott Logic has so far carried out and delivered the following:
- Discovery and Alpha to redesign the national site selection end-to-end service.
- Iterative research with Industry and councils to re-engineer the land submission process being used by Local Planning Authorities to collect submissions from Developers and Land Owners.
- Improved standardisation of data submission and simplified the process for users by creating a standard online proforma with GIS rendering capability for land submissions.
- Assessed and mapped capability across MHCLG's Digital Directorate and within Local Planning Authorities as part of the technology and adoption strategy for the Digital Planning Reform business case.
- Developed a Target Operating Model for the Digital Programme, including a scalable technical governance matrix, a framework for how Local Planning Authorities can adopt and transition to the new digital planning services; and a series of products, templates and toolkits to accelerate change and uptake.
- Discovery and Alpha to redesign the national site selection end-to-end service.
- Iterative research with Industry and councils to re-engineer the land submission process being used by Local Planning Authorities to collect submissions from Developers and Land Owners.
- Improved standardisation of data submission and simplified the process for users by creating a standard online proforma with GIS rendering capability for land submissions.
- Assessed and mapped capability across MHCLG's Digital Directorate and within Local Planning Authorities as part of the technology and adoption strategy for the Digital Planning Reform business case.
- Developed a Target Operating Model for the Digital Programme, including a scalable technical governance matrix, a framework for how Local Planning Authorities can adopt and transition to the new digital planning services; and a series of products, templates and toolkits to accelerate change and uptake.
Results
Delivered operational and system foundations to enable:
- Local Authorities to transition from a document-based to a data-driven, standards-based planning system.
- Improved decision-making, faster plan-making, greater access to planning data, and wider local community engagement.
- Streamlined site selection (for identifying and assessing land for development) using a redesigned process.
- Local Authorities to transition from a document-based to a data-driven, standards-based planning system.
- Improved decision-making, faster plan-making, greater access to planning data, and wider local community engagement.
- Streamlined site selection (for identifying and assessing land for development) using a redesigned process.
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