Great to see #digitalplanning increasingly part of mainstream studies - be useful if Royal Town Planning Institute could make it a core course component

Come join our dynamic planning and real estate team Urban Studies UofG Social Sciences as we develop a new digital planning pathway with UBDC: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC256/lec…

📣 There's still time to tell us how the home buying and selling process could be improved in England.

We want to hear from you about the transaction process, information provision and conveyancers.

Have your say by 18 April 👉 committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

Still places left to join our Digital Forum event on 25th April @tpximpact - a discussion on the future of the service standard. Anyone involved in Government/NHS/third sector digital work should find it useful. Sign up at the bottom of this page: shorturl.at/alqzE

@EastHearts Council gets stuck into a clutch of digital planning projects ukauthority.com/articles/east-… #localgov #govtech

“the dominant form of multidisciplinary digital work in government: services that are messy, internally focused, infrastructural, 'brownfield', policy-heavy and really bloody difficult to bring to coherence? “ and the limits of the service standard/gov procurement 🙌

Interesting Lichfields ThinkTank report on the time larger sites take through planning. lots of gaps (site allocation and pre-app periods in particular) due to poor/absent data. It’s difficult to diagnose the problems or prescribe solutions with such patchy data lichfields.uk/media/w3wjmws0…

People now pitching ideas for making Defra UK’s e-waste service greener and using the Principles for Greener Services for doing so

The fab Harriet Pugh kicking off our Greener Services hack with Defra UK and other gov colleagues about how to use Planet Principles to design better policy, products and services which minimise the environment impact of government services.

Tom Riordan kicking us of at #NorthWinning

Charlotte Morphet MRTPI FRSA 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) Richard Crawley Richard Blyth So I've made a start here docs.google.com/document/d/1U_… additions most welcome - document open

I think it's all a good example of one of the biggest problems in UK policy which is clever and well-educated people extracting rent from their education by making pretty simple things far too complicated and nuanced. All while nodding along to this largely-wrong cartoon.

Not done this for a long time but defo #FF MIPIM Lads
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