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Places, People and Planning Consultation


There is just one day left to respond to the “Places, people and planning – A consultation on the future of the Scottish planning system” proposal document.
PPP

Closing on 4 April 2017, this is the current stage in a process started in 2015 and with a plan to implement a new Planning Bill within the current parliamentary period.

The consultation paper is here, and is the follow-up to the report as previously discussed at Blogality.

It is great to see that Proposal 20 (out of 20) focuses on the benefits that technology and innovation can bring to the planning system.  There are three paragraphs, each highlighting areas where Linknode have input to date.  Section 4.29 is all about benefits of “digitally enabling transformation of our public services” that includes the work we pioneered for ePlanning (now eDevelopment) over the last 10 years.
Section 4.30 introduces current activities including the “potential on three-dimensional visualisations in planning” (our contributions here) describing the next steps as to “continue to explore and promote new visualisation technology by taking forwards research recommendations in a new programme of work“.
Finally, in 4.31 we are excited to see that the new digital task force will be appointed to take forwards digital transformation including mobile and drone (UAV) activities, matching our current research activities on engagement, access and visualisation.

Click below to contribute to the consultation – don’t delay!
https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/planning-architecture/a-consultation-on-the-future-of-planning/