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Smarter Planning Champion status for businesses
Since the launch of the Smarter Planning (SP) scheme in November last year 205 organisations have achieved SP Champion status by consistently meeting the best practice guidelines of the scheme and...
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Help shape the future of the Planning Portal
As you probably know, in the summer DCLG published a prospectus inviting expressions of interest on taking on the future operation of the Planning Portal. DCLG has organised an event on 10th December...
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Commercial opportunities for the Planning Portal
The original version of this article appeared on the GOV.uk website The Planning Portal is now open to investment from a commercial partner who can continue developing the service. The Portal is highly...
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Planning Portal commercialisation
I am truly disappointed to announce that the Planning Portal team have been unsuccessful in our bid to take on the future operation of the Portal as an employee-owned business. The bid team of Allen,...
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TerraQuest has been appointed as the preferred bidder to take over the...
It’s been a while coming but it can now be revealed that TerraQuest has been chosen by DCLG to partner with them in a joint venture to provide the ongoing delivery and commercialisation of the Planning...
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Calling all site location plan providers!
When we refresh our website in the Autumn we’re also going to take the opportunity to refresh our Buy-a-Map service, which many customers use to buy site location plans for their planning applications....
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Find A Professional?
A lot of the traffic to our site is from members of the public who visit our ‘do you need permission?’ section to understand whether they need to apply for planning permission to extend or improve...
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Looking for a new job in planning?
Following hot on the heels of last week’s post about our new ‘Find A Trade Professional’ service, I’m equally pleased to announce that we’re also teaming up with RTPI and their official magazine, The...
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Find another professional…
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a new service we’ve launched for homeowners using our site to get in touch with trade professionals who can help them. Our first partner was the long established,...
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Six months on…what next?
Its hard to believe that its been six months since the new Planning Portal was unveiled at the end of March 2016. The new site was many months in development and the logistical challenge to securely...
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