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London Borough of Redbridge has been working with Agile Datum, our specialist data sciences team, to develop the first AI enabled chatbot for planning applications. And since launch, it’s already helping to free up the council planning team and cut turnaround times for planning validation services to just 24 hours. We spoke with Brett Leahy, […]
Calls for councils to join pilot programme to test AI’s potential to transform planning The UK’s largest artificial intelligence planning hackathon takes place in London next week. The week-long event (Dec 9-13), at the British Library, is part of a local government project being led by Agile Applications’ AI specialist division, Agile Datum, based at […]
Unless you’re a serial house owner/mover, live on the doorstep of a new development or are troubled by a neighbour’s intended plans, chances are that you’ll have come into contact with the planning legal system pretty infrequently. Until 2013 that is, when the first permitted development rights were granted. Looking to save, house owners are […]
You can take the saying “an Englishman’s home is his castle” just that bit too far. In one (in)famous case, a farmer successfully hid a £1m mock Tudor mansion behind hay bales for four years (a critical time period under the “operational development” rule which the owner used to claim immunity from enforcement action). The […]
We’re delighted to announce that our SaaS solutions are now available via the government’s Digital Market Place https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/ under the G Cloud 11 procurement framework. You’ll find our core products in the Cloud Software category and data services for Microsoft BI and other products in Cloud Support. G Cloud gives local councils, central government and […]
Take a guess at how long email has been around..20 years, 30 years? Admit to rocking a mullet, rolled up jacket sleeves or Bananarama style and you can probably dimly recall email over dial up modems in the 80s. In fact, it’s been with us for an amazing 50 years. Email is a great tool […]
As in the wider digital economy, local authority staff are less tied to physical offices and increasingly work away from base, and with the almost limitless functionality of mobile tech in our home lives, many of us expect to use comparable tools at work. Flexible, secure working on the move for time-pressed officers in “customer […]
How far is the moon from earth? It’s about 239,000 miles – and amazingly, we could cover that distance with the wrapping paper we’ll get through this Christmas. That’s over 8,000 tonnes of additional paper waste in just one day, and it’s not all recyclable – sparkle, glitter and laminate finishes mean your beautiful wrapping […]
If we’re making a journey, looking for the nearest restaurant, wanting to know what’s around us, we can simply “google map it”. That’s the easy-to-use concept that we had in mind at Agile when we developed Agile GIS for business use. We wanted to bring intuitive GIS to the desktop with a system that makes it […]
Shipping fish from British waters that is destined for our dinner tables half way round the world to be processed and back again? That would be pointless, but it’s common practice! Food campaign charity, Sustain, reports that imported fish products (sometimes incorrectly marketed as UK-produced), may travel up to 18,000 miles before reaching our supermarkets. […]