Planning services designed by planners

Open Digital Planning is a visionary project to design the next generation of planning services for local government.

By councils

Join a collaborative venture

We are a growing group of UK council officers who have joined together with digital agencies to co-design, build, test and launch better software.

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For councils

Our services and software

Open Digital Planning is a set of integrated applications that are simpler for applicants, agents and planning officers.

Guidance

Your residents can find out if their project might need planning permission straight away
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Application

Your residents can apply and pay for a lawful development certificate online
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Assessment

An easy-to-use back-office system for your planning team to manage applications
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We estimate that our software prevents 71% of invalid application

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From our Twitter

📼If you missed last week’s live RIPA-BOPS Show & Tell, you can watch back here: https://t.co/7xnG2PVN7d.

🧐Want to hear more? Sign up for regular updates here: https://t.co/Vv6D0acdOp #PlanTech #localdigital
— Open Digital Planning (@opendigitalplan) May 31, 2022

We may be biased, but...another fantastic Show and Tell from the RIPA & @BoPs_Digital team. Lots of work has been going on with new developments around save and return and an accessibility audit undertaken - look out for the recording if you missed it!#PlanTech #localdigital pic.twitter.com/JsOSUh0cFz
— Open Digital Planning (@opendigitalplan) April 27, 2022

What's in a name...? Lots of interesting ideas as we think about how our @BoPs_Digital and RIPA projects are best presented as we move forward in our new and joined up phase.#Plantech #DigitalPlanning #LocalDigital pic.twitter.com/tvA0Z5uBz3
— Open Digital Planning (@opendigitalplan) April 12, 2022

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