Limehouse Software Powers Shared Services at Daventry Council

The Joint Planning Unit is a partnership project between Daventry Council, Northampton Borough and South Northamptonshire Council. It was formed to achieve a greater level of collaboration in planning services throughout the region. In this application, the integration of the full Limehouse Software suite enables all parties involved in the development of the area to be able to participate more easily, at all levels - from government departments to the residents themselves.

uengage enables Local Development Framework (LDF) consultations to be made available to the public via an online portal, where it automatically stores all data and allows one-touch reporting for immediate feedback. ucreate facilitates instant publishing to multiple formats, whilst maintaining the integrity of the brand of each of the three councils. As a result complex documents can be made available to all stakeholders in print, or online with minimal effort. The system integrates with uengage to allow real-time feedback reporting on specific issues within documents that have been produced through ucreate.

Richard Wood, Planning Policy & Housing Strategy Manager at Daventry council, said: “The rapid pace of development in the Northampton area combined with Central Government targets to improve efficiencies mean that it has become more important than ever for authorities to communicate and work together. As a result we needed to find the most efficient way to achieve this,” He continues: “Limehouse Software offers the best and most complete solution that can be applied to our existing structure. We expect our efficiency to increase as we can now automate and simplify many parts of the LDF process, creating real cost savings.”

Limehouse Software’s solutions facilitate the delivery of consultations and the collaboration, creation and publishing of policy and planning documents. In this application, Limehouse Software is a leading supplier of document collaboration, creation, publishing and consultation solutions for local, regional and central government bodies across the UK. Its proprietary applications, ucreate and uengage, are enabling organisations to reduce the costs involved in producing complex, branded documents by up to 40%. Across the UK, more than 200 local authorities have implemented It was recently announced that 40% of The Times top 20 Councils to work for are users of Limehouse Software.

Giles Welch, CEO of Limehouse software: “This latest announcement demonstrates once again the effectiveness and strong reputation Limehouse software has within public sector IT. The growing number of local and central government organisations switching their systems to use ucreate and uengage demonstrates that Limehouse provides an extremely effective way of streamlining the document creation and consultation process. This year Limehouse has witnessed substantial growth and we expect the trend to continue well into 2008, and beyond,” added Welch.