Planning Report 3: Technology as a delivery tool
Download the final part of Searchland's UK planning whitepaper series - where ten senior planning professionals turn from policy to practice, asking whether the tools already exist to fix the system, and why adoption still lags behind capability.
We spoke to ten senior planners about where data, digital platforms and AI are already changing planning - and where human judgement still can't be replaced.
Expect to uncover:
- Why AI's biggest barrier in planning isn't capability - it's trust
- How siloed, inconsistent data is the real blocker to better decisions
- Why more visibility into planning data changes anticipation, not just hindsight
- How digital tools are turning site sourcing from reactive to strategic
- Why capacity, not technology, is often planning's real constraint
Where the technology helps - and where it doesn't
The tools to fix UK planning largely already exist. What's missing is trust and adoption. This report looks at why siloed, inconsistent data - not a lack of AI capability - is still the real blocker to better decisions, and why more visibility into planning data changes anticipation, not just hindsight.
It also makes the case that digital tools are turning site sourcing from reactive to strategic - spotting opportunity before it's public, rather than reacting once it is. But the report is clear-eyed too: capacity, not technology, is often planning's real constraint. No platform fixes an under-resourced planning department.
Ten senior planning professionals from Avison Young, Wates Residential, Persimmon Homes, Iceni Projects, Irwin Mitchell, Planning Potential and ROK Planning close out the three-part series by turning from policy to practice.
Contributions from: Avison Young, Wates Residential, Persimmon Homes, Iceni Projects, Irwin Mitchell, Planning Potential, ROK Planning & Searchland
Read our previous reports.
