Useful Links
- General Interest - IT for Local Authorities
- Planning
- Building Control
- Environmental Health & Trading Standards
General interest - IT for local authorities
| A professional association and an excellent source of guidance and advice on ICT and e-government issues in the public sector. |
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The Planning Inspectorate's online planning service. |
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| For information on BS7666, etc, Online Standards allows you to enter a BS reference number and view or download the relevant information. |
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| The National Land and Property Gazetteer holds data for land and property throughout England and Wales. |
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| The National Land Information Service provides access to accurate and comprehensive information on land and property in England and Wales. |
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| Improvement and Development Agency - offers numerous improvement and development programmes for local authorities. |
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| Features a guide and index to civil service guidance information. |
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| Central government department that brings together key responsibilities for regional and local government, in particular, housing, planning, building control and regeneration. |
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| Publishers of Town Hall and Local Government IT in Use, with online articles. |
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| Signposts to Government from Kable. |
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| A wealth of resources, of potential interest to all our customers. |
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| Up-to-date information on the National Land Use Database. |
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| Investigates complaints of wrongdoing arising from incompetence by local authorities and other bodies. |
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| Commercial arm of Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). CIPFA sets and oversees professional standards throughout the public sector including Best Value and benchmarking. |
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| UK Central and Local Government directory and search engine. |
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| Kensington & Chelsea's Weekly List of planning applications received is created from ACOLAID data. |
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| Brent was awarded the Local Government Association Web Site of the Year Award in 1999, and runner-up in 2000. Their dynamic website makes use of data from ACOLAID's property database. |
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| Information for Scottish local authorities. |
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| Information for Welsh local authorities. |
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Planning
| Central government department that brings together key responsibilities for regional and local government, in particular, housing, planning, building control and regeneration. |
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| Government gateway to planning information within the UK. |
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| Resources from the RTPI for Development Control. |
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| Carries out appeals and other casework under legislation within England and Wales. |
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Building Control
| The Construction Industry Council represents over 35,000 professionals working for and in the building industry. Its membership list is a particularly useful source of contacts in building control, surveying and construction. |
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| Central government department that brings together key responsibilities for regional and local government, in particular, housing, planning, building control and regeneration. |
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| The Institute of Building Control website offers information on news, events, and job opportunities in building control. |
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| An independent building control source. |
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Environmental Health & Trading Standards
| Resources and information for Environmental Health professionals. |
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| Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services - co-ordinates enforcements activities for trading standards, food enforcement, public entertainment and liquor licensing. |
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| Central Government Trading Standards information. |
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| Independent food safety watchdog set up to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food. |
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