Community

Open Digital Planning is a collaborative community comprising Local Planning Authorities, digital agencies and Central Government, who are working in partnership to enhance planning services in England.

Improving digital planning together

The community is made up of council officers, content writers, developers and user research experts from over 100 Local Planning Authorities, digital agencies, and central government, collaborating to:

Co-design and deliver Open Digital Planning products
Improve their technology or data connections with their existing suppliers
Support local planning authorities to identify, clean and publish planning datasets to the Planning Data Platform

A community in progress

2022

The first nine Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to join the Open Digital Planning (ODP) community have been working collaboratively to co-design ODP’s back-office planning system (BOPS), Digital Site Notice and PlanX
Several of these LPAs have successfully implemented at least one ODP product on their respective council websites

2023

Ten LPAs joined the ODP community to begin the adoption, design and implementation journey for PlanX and BOPS
Nine LPAs joined the ODP community to kick off three integration projects, which aim to seamlessly integrate existing software and services with ODP products

2024

Forty-three LPAs joined the ODP community to assess and enhance their digital planning maturity, access training opportunities and improve and publish their datasets on the Planning Data Platform
Forty-nine LPAs joined to deliver 37 pilot PropTech projects that demonstrate how digital solutions can be leveraged across land assessment as well as digital citizen engagement work on visualising planning proposals.

Open Digital community members

See the full list of Open Digital Planning community members to date.

List of community members

Joining the Open Digital Planning community

Currently, only Local Planning Authorities funded by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Digital Planning Programme can join the Open Digital Planning community. We aim to open membership to all local authorities later this year.