Open Digital Planning: a cross-sector partnership to transform local planning services

Open Digital Planning community at a meeting in Newcastle The Ministry of Housing, Communities and L...

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International Women’s Day 2025: Meet the women shaping AI, cyber and technology at MHCLG

This year’s International Women’s Day’s theme is ‘Accelerate action’. This is something that resonat...

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Setting the foundations for faster plan-making 

  Up-to-date local plans in every planning authority across the country are essential to delivering ...

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Bringing SaaS tools into a fully supported service: powering innovation as a live services manager 

As a live services manager at MHCLG Digital, my role revolves around encouraging a more effective us...

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Breaking down barriers: working together to support local authorities

  The Digital Planning team is constantly looking for ways to make and enhance land and housing data...

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Democracy matters: join our Elections Digital Team and build great services

Hi, I’m Liz Owen, Deputy Director of the Elections Digital Team at the Ministry of Housing, Communit...

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National Apprenticeship Week 2025: my story as a cyber security apprentice in MHCLG 

The Civil Service offers an attractive range of apprenticeship schemes providing the opportunity to ...

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Digital Planning: Scaling the Planning Data service 

Our purpose is to make land and housing data easier to find, use and trust.  We believe this will le...

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What it’s like to be a user researcher at MHCLG Digital

Hi, I’m James, a user researcher at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCL...

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Norfolk County Council’s experience with the Cyber Assessment Framework for local government

In October 2024, the Local Digital team launched the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for local gove...

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Digital Planning Directory launches: a milestone moment for the UK’s planning sector  

Dr Wei Yang OBE, CEO of the Digital Task Force for Planning speaking at the launch event The UK’s pl...

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Funding Service: how a glossary helps us speak the same language

If you’ve worked with a content designer before (or are one) then you’ll be familiar with one of our...

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I don’t worry about AI taking my job – just my cat

“Am I better at my job than my cat?” That’s a question I had to ponder when my cat managed to book a...

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4 things I've learnt as a policy professional working in digital

Moving from policy to digital  Earlier this year, I decided to try something different by taking up ...

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Digital Planning Programme: our year in review 

As we wrap up 2024, we’re reflecting on another exciting year for the MHCLG Digital Planning Program...

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Homes for Ukraine: applying digital principles and innovation to respond to a crisis rapidly at scale

Hello, my name is Coco. I’ve worked in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MH...

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Funding Service: How digital innovation will help us to deliver grants faster, better and cheaper  

The Funding Service is a multidisciplinary team in MHCLG transforming the way the department deliver...

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Digital Planning: Developing planning applications specifications in the open 

Following our previous blog about data specifications for planning application submissions, we're pl...

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Digital Planning: applying digital principles and innovation to transform England’s planning system 

The Digital Planning programme within MHCLG has a mission to modernise the planning system and make ...

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Faster, better, cheaper: delivering improved outcomes for citizens

Everyone in government is focused on outcomes. Whether these are wrapped up in policies or programme...

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Data Hackathon: Exploring how open data can help transform the planning system

‘Housing Heroes’ was the team name an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool generated for us at a recent...

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Designing a user-centred cyber assessment service for local government

In October 2024, the MHCLG Local Digital team launched the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for loca...

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From manual to automated: enhancing reporting for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping team 

The Digital Process Improvement team in MHCLG is a diverse, multidisciplinary team dedicated to maki...

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What might a Policy Standard in government look like? 

Government is becoming more familiar with doing user-centred policy design, whether in creating prog...

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Funding Service: Defining data standards for grant teams

Creating reusable standards to improve grant delivery Data collection in funding is complex, with no...

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Using data design to transform the planning application process: get involved

The planning application process, known as development management, is integral to new developments c...

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Empowering voters: behind the scenes of the Choose My PCC service 

We are a multidisciplinary team embedded within the MHCLG’s Elections Directorate, which builds and ...

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Prioritising mental health in the workplace  

My interest in mental health stems from a personal experience, having supported my wife through very...

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User needs and user biases: telling them apart

As I sat through my 10th or so user research interview on the Common Tools as a Service project at t...

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Design, delivery, and determinism: reflections on the SDinGov conference 2024 

Not quite the entire MHCLG contingent at the Service Design in Government conference, hosted in Edin...

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