Using AI to organize the blizzard of paperwork, etc., needed for building permits.

Our planning system remains heavily reliant on cumbersome paper-based processes that consume the time of expert planning officers. We are dragging the system into the 21st Century.

And:

It triages applications, summarises key information and provides planning officers with an initial assessment they can consider when making their decision. The government says the technology aims to halve average processing times for applications from eight to four weeks.

🔗 Dorset Council tests AI agents to speed up planning applications