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Building the perfect planning section

Lessons learnt from www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/planning

Stuart HarrisonWebmaster

[email protected]

01543 308779

A quick background

Lichfield District Council:

• A very historic and rural location

• Huge public demand for visible planning decisions

• A large online community

• A team which are heavily involved in answering frontdesk and telephone planning enquiries

• Average 7 planning documents posted each week

Socitm Better Connected

• Started in 1997

• Charts the successes (and failures) of local authority websites

• Covers 468 council websites

• Large team of reviewers

SOCITM Report

What a great planning services homepage... it's the most engaging and readable introduction to planning

that I have seen. I love the map of planning applications, which is so easy to use and which really invites the user to try out the mapping and

online facilities."

Planning and you

Easy access to search tools

Map of latestapplications

Clear navigation and layout

Link on everypage

Planning and you

Alertingsystems

Latest Applications

Search tools

Search Tools

PublicAccess

RSS Feeds

• Used widely on news websites

• Allows users to access content withouthaving to visit the website

• Lets other people ‘mash up’ and reuse content

RSS Feeds

Email Alerts

Twitter

• ‘Microblogging’ and communicationplatform

• Used increasingly by councils and otherorganisations

• Allows greater, more personal communication, as well as the abilityto disseminate information quickly

Twitter

Thank you

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www.lichfielddc.gov.uk

[email protected] 308779

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