RTPI London Summit 2025 - Accelerating Digital Capacity in Planning

Planning Portal is the national planning application service for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Planning Portal has been revolutionising the planning process for both public and private sector stakeholders for more than twenty years. Our mission is to continue and build on this, transforming planning and building. By working in partnership with every local authority and focusing on delivering a quality service to our customers, we will continue to be the national home of planning and building regulations information and the national planning application service.

Planning Portal is powered by TerraQuest. At TerraQuest, we envision a world where optimised technology and data solutions allow the built environment to thrive for the benefit of our communities and our planet. With over 50 years of expertise in land referencing, we support major national infrastructure projects through our innovative, data-driven software.

Capita is an outsourcer, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences.

Operating across 8 countries, Capita’s 41,000 colleagues support primarily UK and European clients with people-based services underpinned by market-leading technology.

We’re a vital support service for our clients, enabling the everyday interactions that we expect to run seamlessly, to run seamlessly.

A publicly listed business with adjusted revenue of £2.6bn, Capita’s areas of focus are Central Government, Local Public Service, Defence, Learning, Fire & Security, Contact Centres and Pensions Solutions.

We’re embracing change to respond to the ever-changing needs of society, creating better outcomes for all our stakeholders.

VU.CITY is a smart city planning platform that transforms decision-making by building collaboration and trust. Everyone involved can view designs and data interactively and in context, understand exactly what’s being proposed and why, and have their say in the challenges and solutions.
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Our 3D platform helps you make decisions and understand the impact of change in cities and on the environment. Together, we can create a more resilient future in which to live, work and enjoy.

Dentons UKI planning team sits within our 200+ strong UKI real estate practice working from five offices across the UK and Ireland.  We are ranked as one of the UK's leading planning law practices in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directories. We are known for expertise in large-scale housing and mixed-use regeneration projects, CPO and infrastructure advice.  The range, complexity and profile of work – for national and local Government, developers, investors and infrastructure providers – stands out.  Our point of difference is the balance of advising both Government and investors on all areas of planning law.

This gives us a different perspective and helps drive our reputation for finding solutions and remaining at the forefront of legal innovation.  Our working culture - focussed on building consensus and solving problems within project teams and with counterparties - is distinctive.  We believe our values – brevity, integrity, innovation and common sense – are recognised as helping us to drive success for our clients.