Find out how Cadence is transforming local planning
Cadence is the core digital delivery platform for the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan. Through this partnership, the Cadence team have actively supported the digitisation of local plans, providing extensive technical support and tailored enhancements to Cadence.
Scope
The Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan is a joint plan between Plymouth City Council, South Hams District Council and West Devon Borough Council. The three councils have joined together to create their local plan which looks at every aspect of how the region will progress over the next 20 years. The government’s white paper “Planning for the Future” set out an aspiration to increasingly harness digital technology across the planning landscape to make it much easier to access and understand information about specific planning proposals. Working closely with council users, the Cadence team identified six core areas where digitisation could support the various stages of plan-making.
As digital partner, the Cadence team have led a number of work-streams, bringing together a supply-chain of technology partners to support the digitisation of each area of plan-making. Cadence is being used to support improvements to core data, digital area profiles and site evidence and analysis while other work-streams are addressing improvements to other areas of the planning process.
Example digital evidence for Local Plan area, Cadence
Outcomes
Cadence is transforming the core building blocks of local plan-making, improving core data, making it easy to establish digital area profiles, undertake analysis and share results. As a result of this partnership, multiple authorities with different IT infrastructure are able to work collaboratively and easily from a single, trusted source of the truth and increase engagement to deliver a truly digital local plan.