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UK local authorities are under intense pressure to deliver meaningful consultation, robust evidence and transparent decision making for planning policy, local plans and development proposals, whilst operating with increasingly constrained budgets.
As Planning departments prepare for upcoming Local Plan reforms, the demand for more efficient, digital first workflows is increasing at top speed.
This briefing outlines how the continuous release policy of OpusConsult and OpusMap directly supports Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) in adapting to the evolving demands of local plan preparation, consultation, and multi-tiered policy coordination.
Many planning officers assume digital mapping is something best left to the GIS team or to data experts. But that’s changing, fast.
A senior planning officer with decades of experience recently told us: “I didn’t think I’d ever be editing map data myself.”
If you’re a planning officer looking for a better way to deliver your Local Plan Policies Map or engage the public with spatial data, OpusMap and OpusConsult might already be on your radar.