Building Standards

We are reviewing the GIS needs within the Council to make better use of spatial data and allow wider benefits across services to support Digital Transformation and identify where savings can be achieved using new updated technologies and better service delivery.  

Please help us by completing this questionnaire which is aimed at both existing GIS users and potential new users.  We'll use the results to put together a robust business case for a new Council GIS platform which will be presented to the Digital Management Board.  

Upgrading to a more powerful, user-friendly GIS platform has a potential to provide:

• Better access and usability of data held across the Council services to inform the public of community information and essential services.  
• Support for major projects involving greater community engagement e.g. place making, reporting, story maps and crowdsourcing tools.
• Analysis in the form of thematic (heat maps) to provide evidence for bids, funding projects.
• A more user-friendly system for services to link data to specific locations on a map, e.g. housing assets, public buildings and assets, waste, titles/ownership, land use, demographic information, education, social care and health data savings.
• Analysis of location data to produce thematic/heat maps e.g. population density, SIMD analysis and data modelling by visualising data on a map and 20 minute mapping tool - meaning that services could identify patterns and relationships between data sets that may not be so apparent in a spreadsheet.

Some examples include:

• Population age grouping by postcode/census data for service planning
• Number of children of school entry age within education catchments and distance from schools.
• Distance/travel time access to Community Facilities, Health and Social Care support, clinics, pharmacies.
• Measuring efficient routes for waste collection vehicles and areas for grounds maintenance and missed bins.
• Risk Management – civil contingency mapping, identifying areas of flooding, hazards