
Significant savings in delivering Call for Sites consultation in Powys

- Company: JDi Solutions Ltd
- Client: Powys County Council
- Region: Wales
- Product: OpusConsult, The Opus System: OpusConsult + OpusMap
- Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping
- Land search and assessment
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
Introduction
Earlier that year Powys procured OpusConsult and OpusMap (the Opus system). They used the Opus system to run their Candidate Sites consultation online. Specifically, the Opus system enabled the public to submit all parts of their candidate site proposal digitally – including site plans – using their preferred web or mobile browser.
Challenges
Solutions
Being able to ask supplementary questions or request additional information based on answers given to previous questions ensured that all required data could be collected from the site proposer at the point of submission. This eliminated planners having to factor in a subsequent communication and clarification stage with proposers after the consultation had closed.
They were able to design and build an interactive Constraints Map in OpusMap from their GIS data as an integral part of the online Candidate Sites form.
Results
We benefit from the software automating a lot of the processes associated with running LDP consultations and preparing maps and documents in general. Removing the need for manual data entry by planners and simplifying or eliminating a number of data processing stages means we have more time to be planners!
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