We recently participated in a panel at the National Planning Summit to discuss how we can support and improve the planning processes for local authorities.

Local government departments continue to make yearly cuts, while also facing increasing pressure on minimum standards, particularly in areas like planning – often cited as a barrier to growth.

The business writer Jack Stack once said that a successful business depends on people having visibility of what’s going on and feeling involved.

The Government’s new planning White Paper has legal, social and practical implications for local councils, developers and residents.

The Government has proposed the biggest set of changes to the UK’s planning system in decades with its recent Planning White Paper.

If you work in local authority Building Control services, you’ll know that it’s impossible to plan for absolutely everything.

There’s no question that the Coronavirus pandemic has hit councils across the UK hard, with a combination of residents needing more help and the mechanisms for delivering that help being disrupted.

Critical infrastructure in the UK has been severely tested by the current pandemic. As life changed in an instant for many our service industries had to respond.

We applied our experience in managing large, complex applications to process planning for Lancaster University’s solar farm through to formal determination.

Since 2013, the Data Communications Company (DCC), one of our subsidiaries within the Capita group, has been licensed by the UK government to build and manage the central network for smart metering across Britain.