Weeknotes charting our progress to help a local authority manage their building safety information Sprint Zero — Week 1 Week end 12/03/21 Following on from the work the team delivered in September last year (here and here), we recently got the go ahead to put this into operation and develop it further. This first week…

and moved 1,000 buildings on line. — The need to radically change the way local authorities, and the industry in general, records built environment information has been clear for a long while. However, it takes a seismic event to shift local government. …

We can’t spreadsheet our way out of this one — For decades now, building safety compliance has involved multiple stakeholders over the lifecycle of a building, from concept through occupation and eventual demolition- Developers, agents, architects, contractors and others involved in the design and construction of buildings Suppliers and supply certification bodies Local authorities, housing associations, developers and others involved…

Part Two — How, practically, do we scale a new service? “So, we’re going live on Tuesday 9th” “Fantastic. What happens on Wednesday 10th?” It’s a good question, but not one that any of us have really needed to asked before now. In my previous blog post I explained why we’re focussing on building a user centred system for planning officers…

Part One: To PD or not to PD The London Borough of Southwark are leading a service build, together with partner authorities, Unboxed and MHCLG, to develop an alternative ‘back office planning system’ offering to council planning departments in the UK. We are almost at the mid point of our BETA and the time when we need to…