Special Episode: Planning Problems & Possibilities

About this episode

The episode discusses digital planning and the importance of data standards in modernizing the planning system.

In this special episode, Gavin Freegard is joined by Mike Rose and Colm Britton to explore digital planning and the role of data standards in modernising the planning system. Rather than focusing on the politics of planning reform, this conversation looks at the underlying infrastructure: paper forms, fragmented data, repeated manual entry, local authority workflows, interoperability and the foundations needed to make the system more effective. They discuss why standards matter, how working in the open has shaped the project, what better planning data could unlock, and why this kind of foundational work has lessons far beyond planning alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Gavin Freegard

Guests: Mike Rose, Colm Britton

Topics covered

• digital planning
• data standards
• planning reform
• infrastructure
• local authority workflows
• interoperability

Keywords

• digital planning
• data standards
• planning system
• local authority
• interoperability
• manual entry
• planning reform

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acast

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