Open data and the planning data platform
An explainer on what open data is, how it works, and why we need it for the platform.
Blog posts
Our approach to open space
An overview of our proposed approach to capturing strategic and local open space on the platform.
How we store data from local planning authorities and keep it up to date
An overview of the data model used by planning.data.gov.uk and the benefits it brings to our users.
Making our API more efficient for data consumers
Working with PlanX, the Planning Data team have been able to streamline our API to boost efficiency and reduce energy.
Challenges with listed buildings
An overview of the work we've done towards a national listed building dataset and the various challenges we still face.
Local plan and local area requirement analysis
An update on some of the work we've been doing to see which planning considerations might be of most value to users in the future.
Jamming together
How we used a design sprint to rapidly prototype and test different solutions to problems faced by data providers.
Introducing the Data Design team
What’s that you ask? Where has that come from? Is this a bunch of new people joining the programme?
Don’t worry, it’s a logical update to the name of who you might know as the Data Standards team.
The promise of community
Last week we welcomed 43 new local planning authorities to the Open Digital Planning community. And it's already working out well!
Ordnance Survey and planning data
An update on our introductory conversation with the Ordnance Survey.
Digging into local area requirements
How can local area requirements help shape the priority of our data standards work.
Our data standards design process
We describe the different stages of our data standards design process.
Versioning our standards
Read about why and how we have added versioning to our specifications and dataset definitions.
On becoming a Service Owner
*A talk Paul Downey gave to the new planning data team.
Meet the Digital Land team
Watch our video about the work the Digital Land team are doing to improve access to land and housing data.
Start treating planning applications as data, rather than documents
Euan talks about his first week in MHCLG Digital, and reflects on how digital is transforming the built environment sector.
Unique property identifiers to be opened under Open Government License
Unique property identifiers will be available as open data under the Open Government Licence from July 2020.
Publishing energy performance certificate data
Read about the user research and policy work to resume publishing EPC data on Open Data Communities.
Lessons we learned at the Future PropTech exhibition
The Digital Land team was represented at this year’s FUTURE: PropTech event to engage with and learn from innovators in the housing and planning sector.
A design pattern for planning permission data
mySociety is working with MHCLG on a Discovery and Alpha project to research, prototype, and test ways to make data around planning applications more open, accessible, sustainable, and trustworthy.
Register of planning application data: Discovery findings
mySociety is working with MHCLG on a Discovery and Alpha project to research, prototype, and test ways to make data around planning applications more open, accessible, sustainable, and trustworthy.
A short history of planning application data projects
mySociety is working with MHCLG on a Discovery and Alpha project to research, prototype, and test ways to make data around planning applications more open, accessible, sustainable, and trustworthy.
Planning permissions ‘Single register of planning’ discovery: Sprint notes 29 Jan - 12 Feb 2019
What we’ve been up to this sprint, including: talking to stakeholders, learning about similar projects that have been done, and holding our second round of user research interviews. Coming up next: more interviews; Alpha project phase plan
Planning permissions ‘Single register of planning’ discovery: Sprint notes 14-28 Jan 2019
What we’ve been up to this sprint, including: Kicking off the project, creating a roadmap, and holding our first batch of user research interviews. Coming up next: more interviews, and an adjusted model of the planning submissions process.
Kicking off the Planning Permissions project
The Digital Land team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working to make it easier for people to find, access and trust the data underlying England’s housing market.
Data and Information
Based on our learnings from discovery, this is the first in a series of blog posts that explains the points of friction that our users face when trying to use housing data.
Making developer contributions open and transparent
How we’re working with planning policy people, local authorities and suppliers to evolve minimal data standards for Section 106 agreements and Viability assessments.
Introducing user research to housing and planning data
Our approach for user research during the discovery phase.