Building understanding of software markets in local government

Over the past six months, we’ve been developing our understanding of local government software marke...

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How we're modernising our digital services to deliver faster land registration

The recent news that we passed our target for reducing the age of our oldest cases is a major achiev...

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The true picture of property fraud in England and Wales

Whilst recent media stories may have left homeowners fearing that property fraud is increasing drama...

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How to deal with property using a power of attorney 

 This guide explains how powers of attorney work for property transactions and what HM Land Registry...

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The Land Registration Academy – shaping the future of our caseworkers

Improving our speed of service for our customers is our main priority at HM Land Registry. You can r...

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Easement entries in the register of title: promoting consistency

In early September, we are changing the way we describe easements in title registers. What is changi...

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How user research is shaping the future of EPCs

Energy performance certificates (EPCs) help people understand how energy efficient their buildings a...

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Delivering a data standard to support Awaab’s Law in social housing 

We’re pleased to share a milestone in our social housing data work, the delivery of a new data stand...

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Understanding Elections user journeys: lessons from in-person mobile testing 

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, user research in government has largely shifted online. This transition...

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Understanding Elections user journeys: lessons from in-person mobile testing 

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, user research in government has largely shifted online. This transition...

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Standardising the planning application process: Kicking off work on decisions 

Every year thousands of planning decisions are made which shape the future of where we all live, wor...

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Introducing UCD Ops at MHCLG: Bringing ResearchOps and DesignOps together 

User-centred design (UCD) at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is gr...

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Digital Planning: From pilots to scale – how PropTech partnerships are unlocking its potential   

The launch of the Opportunity for PropTech Report, earlier this year, at Google’s Headquarters in Lo...

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Rapid Policy Insights: How user-centred approaches support improved policy design in MHCLG 

Embedding digital into policy  In MHCLG, a central element of our digital strategy is ‘embedding dig...

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Standardising the planning application process: Progress and next steps

Since October 2024, our team has been hard at work standardising the planning application process. T...

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Common Tools: building a performance dashboard that meets user needs  

The Common Tools as a Service (CTaaS) team is responsible for building standardised, reliable and re...

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Unlocking innovation in planning: Reflections on the PropTech Innovation Challenge 

How do we bridge the gap between our ambitious housing targets and the complex realities of planning...

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Creating a reusable Svelte component library to help developers build data-rich digital products faster 

In recent weeks, our product development team has been building a Svelte component library to provid...

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Extract: Using AI to unlock historic planning data 

Extract identifying Ground Control Points to georeference the old map  This isn’t going to be a stor...

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Supporting local government to reduce cyber risk through targeted interventions

The cyber threat to local government is real, increasing, and constantly evolving. Attacks can disru...

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Putting innovation at the heart of unlocking small sites

In a significant move to accelerate housing delivery across England, the Deputy Prime Minister has t...

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Finding requisitions on the portal has just got easier

Branislav Nenin/Shutterstock.com Two new enhancements have been added to the portal, designed to sav...

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Unlocking planning innovation: 150 brilliant minds collaborate in Leeds 

Innovation came to life at the recent Local Government Innovation Hackathon, in Leeds.  This high-en...

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Advancing digital planning: Open Digital Planning’s first end-to-end product pilots

Last year was a significant step forward in our mission to modernise England’s planning system. Supp...

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Funding Service: Transforming an Excel spreadsheet into a user-friendly form

The Funding Service helps grant teams deliver funding quickly and consistently to local councils and...

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Funding Service: behind the scenes as a grant relationship manager 

Just 2 years ago, the MHCLG Funding Service was celebrating onboarding our second grant ever. Fast f...

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Exploring approaches for using GOV.UK One Login in local government: join our discovery 

The way service users access public services is changing. At the heart of this transformation is GOV...

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Digital Planning: Get involved validating the baseline planning application data specifications

At the end of last year we started work on data standards for planning applications. We have been lo...

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Building the service you need

I know that improving the speed of registration is our customers’ number one concern. It is the same...

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Local Digital’s next steps with Tom Smith, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics 

I’m Tom Smith, the Director of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Analytics Directorate...

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