Project vision“A Digital Local Plan will create a connected system for plan-making. It will tell the story of how policies are produced making them more transparent, traceable, and easier to understand for everyone involved. This will enable faster plan-making, support greater local plan coverage and build trust.”
Prototypes
01 Plan-making home screen
Early ideas on a case management page for planning policy teams to manage the plan-making process.
EARLY CONCEPT v.1 29 July 2026
03 Scoping activities and self assessment
A few concepts for managing the scoping activities that planning policy teams carry out in readiness for Gateway 1 self assessment and an example of how the self-assessment tracker might be populated as activities are completed.
EARLY CONCEPT v.1 29 July 2026
04 Publish Notice of Intention to Commence
Two approaches to editing, previewing and publishing your notice of intention to commence plan-making.
EARLY CONCEPT v.1 31 July 2026
Some ideas for preparing and publishing your local plan timetable and required datasets.
EARLY CONCEPT v.1 29 July 2026
02 Create and publish plan timetable
About the prototypes
‘Prototypes’ are a version of a thing that help us test out ideas with the real users of that thing. They might show an idea at a very high level, or they might show a very specific feature with detailed functionality. They can range from a sketch to a clickable interface that looks and feels like a real interaction.
We’re using the GOV.UK Design System. This helps us create accessible prototypes quickly using tried and tested components and patterns that many government users are already familiar with.