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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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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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...

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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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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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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...

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Assessing the viability of housing development sites  

Viability co-founders Henry Mayell and Adria Tarrida Property technology (PropTech) start-up Viabili...

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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...

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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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The scale and cost of requisitions

In part one of this blog, we explored how HM Land Registry is reducing the number of requisitions we...

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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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How are we reducing the number of requisitions we send?

Chonlatee42/Shutterstock.com While our overriding focus is on reducing the age of our oldest applica...

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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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Setting the foundations for effective data use in local government

In this blog post, we share the insights behind our approach to scaling data standards and an update...

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Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems

Complex problems  Most of the problems that today’s governments are trying to address are complex. I...

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Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge 

Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider se...

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Funding Service: why combining self-service with a human touch works best for grant teams 

What we mean by guided self-service  In the world of designing and launching new funds, guided self-...

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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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My experience on the Summer Internship Programme in MHCLG 

A career in MHCLG Digital is open to everyone regardless of their background. The Civil Service Summ...

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It’s now much easier to add additional parties to Digital Registration Service applications

BushAlex/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry now processes more than 1.5 million applications annually...

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From Homes for Ukraine to community building: my journey as a business analyst Fast Streamer

I’m Luke and I’m a business analyst in my first year of the ‘Digital, Data Technology and Cyber’ Fas...

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