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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Digital Planning: Learning about resilience, cohesion and trust at the 25th Belgo-British Conference 

Lou Welham at the 25th annual Belgo-British Conference Recently I had the privilege of attending the...

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It's now even easier to add additional parties to applications in our portal

BushAlex/Shutterstock.com From 31 March, customers are now able to add landlord and tenant details a...

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Very common tools: what we’ve learnt whilst improving SharePoint

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

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Local Land Charges – the journey so far

GamePixel/Shutterstock.com The desire for quicker, simpler and cheaper conveyancing is driving a hos...

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Asking for guidance part 4: A case of distribution in kind

Approximately 65% of complex applications receive requisitions. This is because some points are hard...

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Funding Service: How we transformed Delta based on user needs  

Delta is the main platform the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) uses to...

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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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Funding boost to support digital planning innovation

The MHCLG Digital Planning programme is providing further grant funding to local planning authoritie...

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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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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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How caseworkers investigate easements 

Sue Burton Photography/Shutterstock.com Registering easements is an important part of HM Land Regist...

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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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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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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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How we've enhanced our digital services

Ground Picture/Shutterstock.com We have made a number of key improvements to our digital services ov...

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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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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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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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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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Explaining easements – making the correct applications

CreativeMedia.org.uk/Shutterstock.com A senior HM Land Registry caseworker has penned this practice-...

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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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