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...
How caseworkers investigate easements
Sue Burton Photography/Shutterstock.com Registering easements is an important part of HM Land Regist...
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...
Setting the foundations for faster plan-making
Up-to-date local plans in every planning authority across the country are essential to delivering ...
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...
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...
How we've enhanced our digital services
Ground Picture/Shutterstock.com We have made a number of key improvements to our digital services ov...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Explaining easements – making the correct applications
CreativeMedia.org.uk/Shutterstock.com A senior HM Land Registry caseworker has penned this practice-...
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...
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...
Digital Planning: Developing planning applications specifications in the open
Following our previous blog about data specifications for planning application submissions, we're pl...
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 ...
Faster, better, cheaper: delivering improved outcomes for citizens
Everyone in government is focused on outcomes. Whether these are wrapped up in policies or programme...
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...
Keeping a close eye on your property helps us prevent potential fraud
International Fraud Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, seeing hundreds of organisations arou...
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...
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...
We are simplifying the registration of personal covenants
We are making the process by which we enter personal covenants in the register more consistent. Cust...
Assessing the viability of housing development sites
Viability co-founders Henry Mayell and Adria Tarrida Property technology (PropTech) start-up Viabili...
Are you paying too much for HM Land Registry services?
If you are looking for information about land or property in England or Wales, you will probably wan...
What might a Policy Standard in government look like?
Government is becoming more familiar with doing user-centred policy design, whether in creating prog...