Mr Murray said that using AI would reduce the administrative burden on council-planning managers. Google\u2019s AI will suggest decisions for officers to review before they are referred to senior officials for approval.<\/p>\n
Marc Warner, the chief executive of Faculty, said: \u201cBy using AI to support planning officers with clear recommendations \u2013 with humans retaining final sign off \u2013 we will help cut approval times on simple renovations in half.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will give councils more time and resources to focus on the bigger infrastructure projects that will improve communities and drive economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tone Langengen, a senior policy adviser at the Tony Blair Institute, said: \u201cThis is a welcome step towards bringing England\u2019s planning system into the digital age.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we\u2019ve long argued, technology and AI can help remove unnecessary bureaucracy, speed up routine decisions and free up planners to focus on the projects that matter most for growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alongside these trials, ministers confirmed that a separate AI system has been rolled out to every planning authority in England.<\/p>\n
The software, called Extract, converts decades-old planning documents, maps and handwritten records, which still underpin many planning decisions, into digital data.<\/p>\n
Officials estimate that Extract could eliminate around 250,000 hours of manual work per year.<\/p>\n
The Government set out draft regulations in Parliament this month to overhaul the system so that planning officers decide on smaller planning applications, rather than council committees.<\/p>\n
Lila Ibrahim, the chief AI readiness officer at Google DeepMind, said the tool would reduce the \u201cmountain of paperwork\u201d that councils face.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThis will help significantly cut decision times, freeing up planners to focus on the future to get Britain building faster.\u201d\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Murray said that using AI would reduce the administrative burden on council-planning managers. Google\u2019s AI will suggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,84,63413,2053,4475,216990,5438,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-construction-industry","tag-labour-party","tag-planning","tag-property-and-construction-industry","tag-standard","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}