Planning Portal: An eGov Success

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Planning PortalAn eGov Success

• Dave Payne
• Wales Regional Account Manager
• WAG/CLG Planning Portal

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Good planning - balconies?
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July08 14,792 June09 15,006
May04 43 May05 296 May06 2,624 May07
7,276 May08 12,412 May09 13,684
Wales online
Nov08 23.4 Dec08 23.2 Jan09
19.6 Feb09 20.7 Mar09 12.2 Apr09 25.9
July09 15,828
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Quicker Easier Application Processing

• Standard forms
• Auto-populates
• Useful tools mapping
• Attachment service
• Click-once to submit

accepted by all LPAs selected fields volume fee
calculators, site location click to add forms
all attachments
Lower Submission/Handling Costs

• Multiple copies of forms
• Plot, print, fold pack
• Paper records/archives
• Payment Options
• Confirmation of receipt

eliminated eliminated eliminated choice of up to
3 instant email
Faster turnaround saves users time money!
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Good planning stairs?
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There are Planning differences between England
Wales and the Planning Portal can reflect them.
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Good planning windows doors?
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The Business Case for E-Consultation
685,000 Applications in 2007/08 generated well
over 1,800,000 consultations

• More than 50 National Statutory Consultees
• 34 Highway Authorities
• 10,000 Community, Town Parish Councils
• 850 other National or Regional Consultees

Costs LPAs at least 20 per consultation case file
Costs Consultees approx. 15 per consultation
case file
Cost gt63 Million per year!
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Average 3 Consultees for Minor/Other apps 17
Consultees for Major Apps
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Statutory Consultees Stakeholder Group
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eCon Progress June09
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Technology whats next?
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1960 - Digital Equipment (DEC) launches first
microcomputer the PDP-1 (The first
step from mainframes to personal computers)?
1963 First mouse developed (wooden box with
two rolling wheels)?
1973 June Bill Gates tells a junior school
classmate "I'm going to make my
first million by the time I'm 25."
1975 January Bill Gates begins writing BASIC
for the Altair, basing it on DECs RSTS-11
BASIC-PLUS. (and finishes it in eight weeks)?
1976 May the term Personal Computer (PC) first
appears
1977 August Radio Shack launches first
microcomputer (selling 10,000 in one month)?
The shipment of PCs worldwide this year
reached 48,000!
1980 July Radio Shack launches first pocket
computer (24 character display,
Qwerty keyboard and 1.9Kb programmable memory)?
2007 - 30 years after launch shipments of PCs
worldwide reach 264 million
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Technology in planning - computing
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Technology in planning mobile phones
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Current trends Hardware becoming smaller,
lighter, faster and greener
Existing technologies converging allowing users
to work from anywhere
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Current Trends Hardware becoming smaller,
lighter, faster greener
But also CHEAPER
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Watch this space possible future developments
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More online tools on sites like the Portal
Permitted Development updates, 3D imaging of
proposed developments, superimposed on satellite
images or maps
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Conceptual design for P360, a new Portal service
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Interactive 3D images of proposed developments
superimposed on location
Shows how proposed design integrates with
surrounding architecture from different
elevations at different times of day plus
interactive walkthroughs
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Watch this space possible future developments

• Faster and wider bandwidth broadband is
  essential

• Fibre broadband (40Mbit/sec) could happen in
  2009/10

• BT start trials of technology this year - plans
  for 10 million homes by 2011

• Muswell Hill in London and Whitchurch in
  Cardiff lucky trial locations

• Virgin and O2 expected to launch similar
  services this year

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Good planning - facilities?
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QUESTION TIME?
Contact Details
david.payne_at_planningportal.gov.uk Mobile 07767
648 170 Help Desk 0117 372 8200 .
www.planningportal.gov.uk