We should be installing this new system soon..

A key principle for us is collaboration and engagement with others in the field..This project has been a collaboration between the London Borough of Southwark, the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Bryden Wood and 3DRepo.. Benefits of a digitised planning process.

The benefits of a seamless end-to-end digital planning process will be many and wide-reaching.Removing the planning bottleneck: there has been significant progress in digitisation for design and construction, but planning, which sits in the middle, is lagging behind and causing delays.The UK has huge construction requirements in multiple sectors – the planning process should be an enabler, not a barrier..

Considering how much impact planning has on our lives, it is not as present or discoverable as many other aspects of contemporary living.The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.

We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.

Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..Over time, this creates vastly improved results, as the rules and algorithmic designs get better and better.

These results have allowed us to visualise and assess both the risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.Consequently, it now takes a few days to do what used to take months..

Eventually, we believe these design apps will start to link up and talk to each other, forming a linked digital ecosystem.As such, this kind of broad, architectural master planning will not be done subjectively, by people, but rather will occur as a result of millions of iterations of potential placements.