Hi, I’m Dave, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). We have new opportunities to join our growing Technology team with more roles to be announced over the summer.
Round 1 of the PropTech Innovation Fund funded 13 pioneering Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) across England to work with 8 Property Technology (PropTech) partners to use innovative digital tools to make the planning process more open and accessible. The projects aimed to boost public engagement, while gathering evidence about the barriers to allow local authorities to adopt digital tools at scale.
We’re pleased to announce 15 more council-led projects have been awarded a total of £3.2 million of funding through Round 3 of the PropTech Innovation Fund. 27 Local Planning Authority (LPAs) are involved in the pilots, some of which see multiple LPAs working in partnership.
This year’s Executive Education Programme featured an exciting line up of new speakers, new partners and an updated agenda. We look back at the highlights from the programme and the digital transformation challenges and initiatives our council participants shared with us.
We’re pleased to announce the 17 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund. The projects were carefully selected from 50 applications representing 118 councils between 13 October and 24 November 2022. …
We are delighted to announce the councils that will be taking part in the pilot of Future Councils - a new programme to support local authorities across England to become modern and resilient. During the pilot phase, we are funding 8 councils …
DLUHC is funding 19 more councils to lead and take part in digital projects that will encourage quicker planning decisions and improve digital planning software.
DLUHC’s Housing and Planning Minister, Lucy Frazer, visited Buckinghamshire Council on the 26 January to learn more about Buckinghamshire’s experience of being part of the Open Digital Planning (ODP) project, demo new user-centred Digital Planning services and hear more about the council’s wider ideas for streamlining the planning system as part of the department’s Digital Planning Programme.
Local Digital is on a mission to bring together everyone required to make excellent local public services through the Local Digital movement. The community was drawn together around the Local Digital Declaration, a shared ambition for the future of local …
In September 2020, the Energy Performance of Buildings Register Find an energy certificate service went live on GOV.UK. This was DLUHC’s first public-facing digital service and replaced a mature but out-dated service that had been run by an external supplier …