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<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">To achieve this the data design team has been looking at what data is available, in what form and how it can be collected by the <a href="https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/">Planning Data Platform</a>. </p>
<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">By providing the right data for everyone to access we can unlock the potential in the planning system. Enabling our users to build services, develop new policies that enable planners, local authorities and communities to access and use planning information more effectively.</p>
<h2 class="govuk-heading-l" class="govuk-heading-l" id="a-local-plan-specification">A local plan specification</h2>
<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">In order to collate all of the existing local plans in England, from different LPAs, the team <a href="https://digital-land.github.io/specification/specification/local-plan/">developed a specification for local plans</a> which could standardise and streamline how we collect and handle this data from multiple sources. See the <a href="https://github.com/digital-land/digital-land.github.io/new/main/content/blog-post#appendix">Appendix</a> for more details.</p>
<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">In order to collate all of the existing local plans in England, from different LPAs, the team <a href="https://digital-land.github.io/specification/specification/local-plan/">developed a specification for local plans</a> which could standardise and streamline how we collect and handle this data from multiple sources. See the <a href="https://digital-land.github.io/blog-post/swarming-around-local-plan-data/#appendix">Appendix</a> for more details.</p>
<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">The team gathered data from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council">311 LPA websites</a> in England and collected thousands of PDFs and other documents relating to their local plan.</p>
<p class="govuk-body" class="govuk-body">To help with this time-consuming task we created a <a href="https://local-plans-explorer.digital-land.info/">Local Plans Explorer prototype</a>, a tool which can quickly and carefully review documents to make sure they are valid and relevant - for example checking the documents contain a date, a local plan description, a local plan boundary etc to decide if the document contains the right data to put on the planning data platform. This was validated by members of the team who have previously been planners and colleagues from the Local Plans policy team at MHCLG. They swarmed together to help to check that the information ‘scraped’ from the websites was accurate, relevant and useful.</p>
<h2 class="govuk-heading-l" class="govuk-heading-l" id="rapid-progress">Rapid progress</h2>
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