Danny Moody, CEO, Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils

&Ray Smith, Strategy & Development Director,

2commune Limited

NN ONE Connecting Council Information In Northamptonshire

Challenges

Increasing pressure on Local Councils to deliver services & to work in partnership with higher tier Local Authorities.

•Parish Plans

•Localism (Devolution of Services, Community Rights)

•Neighbourhood Planning (CIL)

•Statutory role in planning process (planning meetings)

•Limited capacity (of local councils)

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NN ONE

NN One is a project aimed at increasing the capacity of Local Councils in Northamptonshire. ‘Exploitation’ of technology will enable local councils to become more efficient and effective, higher tier authorities will benefit from improved communications.

Lead partner: NCALC

Replicate the proven ‘Leicestershire Model’ to provide a county wide:

•Database of local council contacts (with real time feed)•A – Z of Services directory•View of undecided planning applications

Vision

• Demolish the ‘Brick Walls’• Customer location• Same information on all sites – builds loyalty• Cross border co-operation• Short and comfortable ‘customer journey’• No Cul-de-sacs• Avoidable contact• Channel shift to ‘self serve’

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Leicestershire

NWL Charnwood Melton Rutland HarboroughOadby & Wigston

BlabyCityHinckley & Bosworth

Community Forums

L&RALCWebsite

Open Data Store

Postings API

UKLC(localcouncils.org)

A – Z Aggregator

Planning Aggregator

LocationAPI

GOV.UK

Components shown in green are supplied by 2commune

UK Local Councils(www.localcouncils.org)

UK Local Councils (UKLC) is a platform built to equip local councils with the tools and knowledge to deliver high quality, online information and services to the communities that they serve.

•Technology infrastructure joins up information and service delivery across the three tiers of local government.

•Home to local council websites engineered to 'exploit' the connectivity provided by the infrastructure's architecture.

•Facilitates a community of professional local council web authors, working together to share knowledge, experience and best practice to deliver continually improving quality of information and services to their customers.

Technology Infrastructure

Local Council Websites

Planning Aggregator

• ‘Harvests’ data from authorities• Aggregates applications• Feeds local council nodes of UKLC• Links directly back to ‘back end data’• Aggregated XML output for use by partners

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Aggregated Output

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Technology

Authority CMS Planning Parishes

Northamptonshire CC ? ? 262

East Northamptonshire DC Jadu IDOX 51

Corby BC Firmstep IDOX 7

Kettering BC Jadu ? 26

Wellingborough BC Jadu Northgate 18

Daventry DC ? Swift 73

Northampton BC Jadu ? 9

South Northamptonshire DC ? ? 78

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Contribution

A small contribution is required from each partner authority to assist with making NN ONE sustainable in Northamptonshire.

•Connection set up fee (variable one off) £600 + VAT per day

•UKLC Infrastructure annual usage fee £500 + VAT per year (per authority)

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Progress to date

• Northamptonshire infrastructure in place (includes planning aggregator)

• Node set up for every local council in Northamptonshire

• A – Z Services on all local council nodes

• NCALC website WIP (Local Council contact XML feed)

• Next steps:i. Authorities to make planning feeds availableii. Authorities to ‘consume’ aggregated feeds (A-Z &

planning) and local council contact detailsiii. Authorities to use postings API

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Demonstration

Live demonstration of planning applications

http://anstey.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/parish-planning-applications.html

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Benefits To Local Planning Authorities

• Greater community awareness of planning applications

• Parish councillors better able to contextualise

• Greater public engagement in the planning process

• Better informed comments on planning applications

• Shared responsibility for publicising applications

• Increased cross-border awareness