Ideally, this would be a neutral broker, such as Government.

This project has concrete and practical deliverables, therefore, but will also make a significant contribution towards a digitally enabled development industry.A key principle for us is collaboration and engagement with others in the field..

This project has been a collaboration between the London Borough of Southwark, the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Bryden Wood and 3DRepo.. Benefits of a digitised planning process.The benefits of a seamless end-to-end digital planning process will be many and wide-reaching.Removing the planning bottleneck: there has been significant progress in digitisation for design and construction, but planning, which sits in the middle, is lagging behind and causing delays.

The UK has huge construction requirements in multiple sectors – the planning process should be an enabler, not a barrier..Considering how much impact planning has on our lives, it is not as present or discoverable as many other aspects of contemporary living.

The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.

We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.This new construction technology enables a much faster design process than traditional methods.

Our PRiSM and SEiSMIC design apps are already in use for housing and school design, respectively.We have also created an algorithmic, computational design system called Rapid Engineering Model (REM) for Highways England.

REM enables the early design stages of Smart Motorways Programme (SMP) schemes to be designed automatically.In addition, we’ve devised a similar, digital framework for Network Rail.