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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is an obvious need in the UK to build more houses. Since the Barker Review in 2004, policy makers, academics and politicians across the board have recognised the need to significantly increase the supply of new homes in order to meet current and future housing needs, and limit further dramatic increases in housing costs. […]
January 2017 saw the introduction of Vacant Land Registers in Ireland. Since then, Irish authorities have been required to list all vacant sites from within their area that are suitable for development. As of January 2018, vacant sites which are bigger than 0.05 of a hectare (excluding gardens) will be subject to the Vacant Site […]
Deciphering the jargon and understanding exactly what’s being said when you first join or deal with a Planning or Building Control department can be difficult. We’ve created this glossary as your go-to source of information for when your colleagues are using industry terms that you haven’t yet mastered: A Adoption: Final confirmation of a development […]
Planning departments are continually changing. Different working methods are being adopted to manage the increased workload, and the pressure on planning teams is heavier than ever before. In the first of our new ‘Day in the Life’ series, we thought we would take a look at what a modern planning department looks like. Traditionally, […]
We’re the inheritors of fabulous landscapes and wild places, ancient monuments, and buzzing urban spaces, but how do we conserve our island home and still live in a 21st-century world economy? As we build more houses, offices and factories, we’re creating new problems; producing more wastewater and potentially toxic runoff, paving over gardens, relying on […]
Worcestershire County continues the drive to achieve the best value and improve access for citizens with the award of the contract to supply Planning software to Agile Applications. The Agile Applications solution provides comprehensive planning, enforcements, and pre-applications functionality with additional features for managing site/condition monitoring and legal agreements. The new online functionality means that […]