The Open Digital Planning (ODP) group has called on local planning authorities to help it build a data specification for planning applications.
The group, which brings together planning practitioners from a number of local authorities, said this is part of its effort to work in the open and pull in a range of different perspectives, and that it is planning create a baseline specification by March 2025.
It put out the call for input in a blogpost, saying it has created a spreadsheet listing the current planning application components and fields, and pointing to a GitHub discussion on the process.
It has asked for input on questions around the components and fields, regarding the priority level, historical context, practical use cases, cost implications and risks, and any other relevant information.
“We also want to encourage people to share with us where data specifications already exist,” it said. “In the drop-in session several examples of existing specifications for ‘address’ were mentioned that we will examine.”
ODP added that its new advisory group has met for the first time followed by its first community-wide drop-in sessions.
