Alan Murtagh

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PARSOL Experience Sharing Workshops
PARSOL EXCHANGE
e-planning and e-regulationby local authorities
for local authorities
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EXCHANGE
CONSULTATION PROCESSES

• 1. Development Documents
• (Local Development Framework and
  Community
• Strategies..)
• 2. Planning Applications

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AGENDA/BRIEF OVERVIEW

• Design Approach
• Systems Development
• Demonstrator System - PARSOL Exchange
• Local Development Documents
• Publish Understand Dialogue Audit
• Planning ApplicationsConsult Response Update
  Audit
• Current position
• Trialing
• Next Steps

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Development Documents - Overview System
Integration Diagram
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PLANNING APPS - CONSULTATION AND NEGOTIATION
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The Planner Viewpoint
The Consultation Process Using Development
Documents as the Example
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Starting Point
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Main Planner Start Point
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Creating a new document
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Entering a document
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Admin - Creating a Tracker Bar
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The Statutory Agency/Citizen Viewpoint .
Making a Representation
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Agency/Public Start Point E.g. English Heritage
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View Document - prior to making Representation
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View Next Level down
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Making a Representation
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Environment Agency Rep Method
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Back to the Planner Managing
Representations
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Representations made
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To make Rep duly made
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Possible citizen entry pointLDF - LDS
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PARSOL EXCHANGE Development Documents - Planning
Applications Brief Comparisons

• Planning Applications already exist didn't look
  at ways of publishing them.
• For Planning Applications, use the
  hosting/communications infrastructure (LGOLNet)
  to drop representations into back-end systems.
• Can link representations on Development
  Documents to any point in document. For Planning
  Applications, representations are against the
  whole document.

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For Development Plans - Giving what.?

• Improvements to facilities to aid document
  preparation/publication/consultation (building on
  work of LPAs/Planning Portal/Inspectorate)
  (Templates)
• Links to guidance on models for plan preparation,
  relevance of plans, impact on community
• Research on plan inputs (policy, research,
  cross-cutting feeds into planning process)
• Online consultation using standard templates
• Links between Development Plans/Frameworks and
  Community Strategies
• Representation analysis feed into Planning
  Inquiries
• User profiling to serve up their interests

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For Consulting on Planning Applications - Giving
what?

• Managing/Sieving consultees
• Managing associated documentation
• Preparing/distributing consultation packs
• Consultee notifications.
• Managing consultations
• Loading representations into back-end systems
• Comments analysis
• Formal feedback to consultees and decision
  dissemination

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WHAT NEXT.???

• Finalise production site working/interfaces
• Do some real trialing
• Introduce to other LPAs Agencies
• Critical evaluation/Learning
• Improve Review of LDS/LDF requirements by
  E-Planning Programme Board - proposed to fund
  PARSOL to
• develop a document publishing standard/schema
• develop functions/infrastructure to enable
  national rollout

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YOUR

• Comments
• Questions
• Guidance
• ???

WELCOMED!!!
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Planning and Regulatory Services Online
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