Scotland’s Digital Strategy for Planning is based around 5 missions that will enable us to deliver on our vision for planning

This week we’re going to take a dive into Mission #1 and how we can unlock the value of planning data!

Data is at the heart of our vision for the future of planning, and the strategy sets out our five year goals to deliver on this mission

We get a bit excited talking about this!

(ok, more than a bit )

Our 5 year goals show how important it is to unlock the value of planning data, and to utilise it for data-driven policy making.

Unlocking the value of data will be key to realising an open and smart planning system

Alongside our five year goals we’ll be delivering a number of priority actions over the next two years.

Want to learn more about these? Take a look at Scotland's Digital Strategy for Planning (FYI: the PDF is interactive to save you scrolling!)

https://www.gov.scot/publications/transforming-places-together-scotlands-digital-strategy-planning/

We’ve already started exploring how geospatial data can be harnessed to drive forward and support policy-making, and even support the Scottish Government’s response to COVID-19

https://www.transformingplanning.scot/digital-planning/visualising-the-future/making-data-driven-policy/

To support development of the strategy we commissioned research into the data landscape by our friends at @improvserv and @BritGeoSurvey

It highlighted four next steps to deliver our mission to unlock the value of planning data

https://www.transformingplanning.scot/digital-planning/informing-the-strategy/digital-landscape-research/

Our focus on understanding, improving and using data shows the importance we place on it

Thanks everyone for following along. Have any thoughts? Let us know!