The Future of Digital Planning

Gather evidence

Create, gather, analyse all technical documents in one tool.

Readily available templates

Accelerate your output by leveraging templates for your research and technical documents already in the system. Simply fill in the relevant sections with the details from your local planning authority.

Connect the chain of evidence

Link all evidence gathering from preliminary reports and assessments, right through to engagement with the community. Objective Keyplan gathers all information and ties it together with the local plan and policies from development to the final plan.

Advanced reporting capability

At a glance, easily see the status of your consultation with a range of reports: submission report, consultee report, and further submissions.

Draft

Draft local plans, development plans, and policies in a centralised platform.

Multiple authors, single document

Eliminate the time-consuming task of collating various source inputs; wrangling spreadsheets, managing huge files or dealing with the dreaded Word corruption issues. Multiple authors, internal or external, can work on the same document, at the same time.

Create content once, re-use anywhere

Ensure your documents are always accurate. Centrally manage master policy content, then embed it in your various plans, any updates are automatically reflected.

Version control

Every change made is automatically tracked and each paragraph or section can be easily rolled back. Document versions can be compared to quickly produce schedules showing all differences as requested in examination.

Consult

Manage and process all engagement and consultee responses efficiently.

Be inclusive – widen participation to everyone

Objective Keyplan is the only solution that allows you to allocate response points in manual representations, in the same way as digital responses, for comprehensive management and reporting.

Tag responses to significantly reduce time

Save hours, days, and months of manual processing by easily tagging all responses and linking them back to various consultation points in the draft plan. Tag an individual consultee to provide detail making it easy to manage responses.

Sentiment analysis

Get an instant gauge of the community mood represented by emojis allowing you to filter through the responses and provide an auto-generated or custom response.

Consultation database

Securely collect, store and manage records of all current, pending and historical consultations. Search and access records with ease. Narrow down to a specific neighbourhood for consultations.

Publish

Create branded documents with multi-channel, multi-language support.

Rich publishing engine

Hosted on a dedicated engagement portal publish documents to HTML or PDF for the community to easily access.

Support multiple languages

Multi-language support makes it easier to be inclusive and meet your statutory compliance.

Demonstrate tracked changes to the Planning Inspector or Reporter

Proposed change functionality simplifies the process of producing a schedule of minor or major changes. Demonstrate the changes made to a plan based on public consultation by sending an annotated "tracked changes" version to the Planning Inspector or Reporter.

Spatial enablement

Digitise a plan beyond a static PDF.

GIS mapping

Deliver an interactive mapping experience by surfacing your live corporate GIS data. Consultees can browse, search and filter geospatially to find information, policies, regulations, and updates relevant to their location.

Allow the community to customise the map

Consultees can choose specific areas and tailor their map view, allowing you to gather community data effectively. Encourage feedback from residents by allowing pin drops and specify boundaries of a site to the area of interest.

Keep the community up to date

Give the community the option to subscribe to a location and receive notifications when you release new or updated information relevant to their location.