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PlanAssist AI cuts planning officer time by 58%
Original title: Speeding up planning decisions with AI
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PlanAssist enters 12-month beta with 15 UK councils, full rollout planned for 2027.
Google DeepMind's PlanAssist AI reduced assessment time by 58% in pilots with Barnet, Camden and Dorset councils. The tool automates document validation, policy checks and report drafting for routine householder applications. Officers retain final say; reports are approved without edits more than 70% of the time.
Key facts
- Routine applications account for up to 70% of workloads
- Over 70% of tool-generated reports approved unchanged
- 12-month beta with 15 councils including diverse communities
- Vendors
- Google DeepMind
- Products
- PlanAssist
- Organizations
- UK governmentGoogle CloudFaculty
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- AI models
- Gemini
From the original article
3 min read at deepmind.google
Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times
By Owen Larter and David Thacker · deepmind.google
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