Case Study: Nottingham City Council improves planning data publishing and open data automation with 1Spatial and FME

Nottingham City Council cuts FOI response time to 1 hour a month with 1Spatial

Nottingham City Council faced challenges in managing and publishing its planning data efficiently. The process was time-consuming and prone to inaccuracies, creating a strain on resources and making it difficult to meet increasing demand. To address this, the council worked with vendor 1Spatial and used FME Server as a data integration solution.

1Spatial implemented a fully automated process that connected the council's datasets to produce visual reports. This solution delivered significant time savings for planning officers, allowing them to construct queries and create reports much more quickly and in greater volume. The measurable impacts included a radically reduced workload, with the production of validated Freedom of Information responses now taking just one hour per month, and improved performance against government targets for open data publication.

Nottingham City Council