Key features ___________________
Integrated modular system
Enforcements, Appeals, Planning Obligations
Flexible document generation
Spatial integration
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Bury Metropolitan Borough Council is a long standing user of Plantech software, utilising systems for Planning and Building Control, and a range of e-government packages. The Council met the 21 Pendleton criteria for electronic delivery of planning services late last year, and now deliver a first class e-planning service to its customers. Bury is now extending this improvement to key services across the council with the introduction of Plantech's ACOLAID Enterprise Programme.
ACOLAID for Development Control
Streamlining the Planning process to improve performance, achieve efficiency and maximise data accessibility for county councils, district and borough councils, and unitary authorities.
The modular structure of ACOLAID for Development Control covers the various stages of the planning process, including the validation process prior to registration, the processing of S106 agreements, appeals and the post decision monitoring of sites and conditions.
Copies of site plans can be stored against the application
Shared information source
The system is designed to hold comprehensive data on each application. Officers can save their work in one place and share outgoing and incoming correspondence. With multiple use functionality, a number of officers can update records simultaneously.
Improving performance
Authorities rely on ACOLAID to achieve a better turnaround of planning applications. Based on Best Value Indicators (BVPI 109) as standard performance targets, Bury Metropolitan Borough Council and Wychavon District Council both gained the ODPM's 'most improved' status shortly after our software was implemented.
Planning on-line
Planning information can be made available on-line to enable the public to answer their own basic enquiries. Intranet pages can be provided to display specific details of the progress and history of applications. Plantech is fully accredited to the Planning Portal enabling councils to increase efficiency by accepting planning applications on-line.
Spatial integration
ACOLAID for Development Control integrates with all the major GIS systems , so that planners can make use of information held on the GIS for constraints checks and for neighbour notifications
For more information contact James Sealey, Development Control Product Manager.