- LOCAL PLAN PRODUCTION
- LOCAL PLANS / LDF ON THE INTERNET
- DATA CAPTURE
- LARGE FORMAT SCANNING
- DATA CONVERSION
- MAPUBLISHER
- TRAINING
- CREATING MAPS TO ORDER
- SATELLITE IMAGERY
- AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- TRANSPORT MAPS
- DISTRIBUTION

Local Plans / LDF on the Internet

New Developments

If you answer yes to any of the questions below then we can help you, remember some of us have been working on local plans since 1986, we do have an understanding of your problems.

• Are you reviewing your expenditure on ICT, perhaps looking at ways of saving money on software licences?
• Do you want your data to be more accessible to more people?
• Do you want software and technologies that work to your demands and not to those of the supplier?
• Do you want someone to really listen to what you want technology to do for you and your data?

At Global Mapping we’ve been focusing on technologies that save you money, make your money go further and make your data work harder for you. As a result, you can now benefit from a new range of browser-based software and technologies in the £500-£5000 price range. (There are more advanced solutions but no single piece of software will cost you more than £10,000.)

Everybody likes the idea of things that are free. As a company we can’t afford to be free but we can factor benefits into the software and solutions we offer you. That’s why we build using primarily Open Source technologies, make our software and tools accessible through a standard web browser and that’s why we use open standards so that our software and products can work with your existing software and data.

What Next?

We think we can help you. Give Nick (ex Northants. & Oxon County Council's) a call on 01280 840770 now or email nick.watson@globalmapping.uk.com 

The following sites will give you online demonstrations of just how flexible our sites are; (This is the list of sites as at present.)

Conwy

LDP
Conwy also had two webforms produced for external engagement, one with statutory consultees on SHLAA(uses a drop-down menu of sites alphabetised by settlement name.)  and one with the general public( uses postcode search for people to locate their property )

The big benefit for Conwy here is that the two webforms use the same map source as the LDP Proposals Map. In other words, once the mapping is set-up in your system we can use it again and again in other contexts.  In both instances the Council receives the User entries of the webform in a structured email which includes an XML file of all data captured by the User plus an image file of the completed drawing. The user also receives a confirmation email with their entries and an image file for their records.

North Kesteven
Local Plan
Produced alongside a printed version that included 69 inset maps. The insets appear as part of the overall website as scale isn’t a restriction with these sites. However each settlement is available to view from a dropdown menu to maintain a link with the printed inset maps.

Vale of Glamorgan
UDP
Features searching by Postcode or partial address. Has the ability to add a second language (Welsh) at a later date if required.

Planning Application History Map
Building on the UDP site, planning applications can now be viewed online

Slough
UDP
Slough are a good example of the flexibility offered by our software. The first site created was their UDP site which displays all their policy data over a Mastermap base, allows for individual layers to be switched on and off plus searching by address.

Thermal Heat Loss Site
This second site was produced for the Green & Built Environment Department and involved importing thermal heat loss data supplied by BlueSky into the standing base website and then customizing the site to meet with Slough’s Environment Officers requirements.

Walking and Cycling
This tourism site features walking and cycling routes in Slough as well as places of interest and the option to view with aerial photography or Mastermap as the backdrop.

West Oxfordshire
LDF Site Submissions
This site gives a list and map of the sites which have been suggested to the Council for future development.The sites were to be considered under the Local Development Framework process and are detailed here for consultation. Sites have yet to be assessed and are not adopted Council policy. The Council asked for views on the sites suggested for development so far and also asked to receive any further sites for the Council to consider for development.

East Northamptonshire
Rural North, Oundle and Thrapston Plan
The Rural North, Oundle and Thrapston Plan is a site specific proposals document, based on the framework set by the North Northamptonshire Core Spatial Strategy. Further plans will follow in the coming months.

Dover
Local Plan
As with all our recent sites, you can select which policies to view and by clicking on the map find out which policies affect that particular point, irrespective of whether all policies are switched on or not!

This website was originally ported to our own Content Management System from MapXtreme, as this offered greater flexibility in linking between the maps and the written documentation. It was more recently moved across to our new CMS. To accommodate transitional arrangements between their Local Plan and LDF and to show the public which policies have been saved and which have been deleted, Dover approached us to adapt their Local Plan. As part of the adaptation planning staff at Dover used the CMS to amend the Written Statement to highlight which policies were no longer valid.

In May 2010, the site was revised again to take account of the current situation with the LDF.

West Lancashire
Local Plan
West Lancashire District Council Interactive Website Wins Award
Global Mappings' innovative websites for local authorities has been recognized by the British Cartographic Society at their annual awards dinner. West Lancashire’s Local Plan website was commended in the Avenza Award for Electronic Mapping. Alan Smith, Managing Director for Global Mapping commented “We are very honoured to have won this award as it underlines what a unique product we offer and is a tribute to our team of developers. With a new system out in the New Year offering even more choice for map based web sites, these are exciting times for everyone connected with Global Mapping”
Pictured is Alan receiving the award from Mary Spence, President of British Cartographic Society.

Sheffield
LDF
The Council's Planning Policy Team uses Limehouse Software for preparing and publishing their LDF policy documents on the Internet. The policy documents only outline the Council's Preferred Options in words which is why a Proposals Map is also published. Rather than simply rely on static images or paper maps the Council has taken full advantage of using the Internet by publishing an interactive Proposals Map that provides significant benefits and time-savings to anyone who wants to participate in the consultation process online. Hyperlinks work between the text and maps meaning that members of the public can link from the Proposals Map to the relevant section of the policy document and vice-versa simply by pointing their cursor and clicking their left mouse button. The two-way linking process is fundamental to the interactive process as it fulfils a key functional component of Band 2 of the PDG e-Planning Criteria for 2007/08. These criteria are used to assess the allocation of Planning Delivery Grants, an important source of income for proactive Councils like Sheffield who are committed to the e-Planning process.

This year Sheffield City Council have introduced a new Online Consultation System for their new planning development documents, the Local Development Framework. The text documents are hosted by Limehouse Software and the Proposals Map is hosted by Global Mapping.

Limehouse software provides an option to produce links to and from documents. Global Mapping took responsibility for making these links live. The implementation by Global Mapping was both quick and uncomplicated. The result is a reliable online map with a fast and intuitive user interface.

Being able to link from a text document and illustrate a specific site on a map has been useful. However our Consultees have been most impressed by the ability to select a location on a map, identify the relevant policies for that location and then follow a link directly to the policy text.

Lauri Platt
Tel: 0114 2734157

Malvern Hills
Local Plan
Searching by Postcode only