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AI-Powered Planning
In 2023, Salford Council secured funding as part of the Planning Software Investment Fund from DLUHC. We worked with three software providers to deliver AI capability in our planning application process – Agile Applications, Objective and Arcus Global. We aimed to see all information related to planning applications; drawings, supporting documents and associated data, flowing seamlessly between multiple systems so that our planning officers could efficiently process and assess applications, delivering quality outcomes from within one system. We built open APIs between our three main systems, so that information collected by the AI validation system (Agile), could pre-populate our back-office system (Arcus) and provide access to our assessment system (Objective). Planning application information became more data-rich and easier to process. The AI system pulls applications from the national planning portal, performs configured checks on the data, presents the officer processing with a % validation, and highlights any aspects for further checks.