OA residential dashboards
What is a dashboard?
There is a big amount of information generated and collected every second. Whilst huge datasets can often be overwhelming and not particularly engaging, dashboards can assist in telling stories through simple, accessible visualisations. Dashboards are interactive tools that offer a ‘gateway’ into the underlying datasets. They offer an opportunity to see all the important metrics, look for answers, but also shape new questions, and further research.
How can the OA dashboards be used?
The development of the OA dashboards is a new way of monitoring and visualising the progress of London’s Opportunity Areas.
In the context of OA monitoring, OA dashboards can:
- Support the evaluation and comparative analysis of OAs
- Provide up-to-date information on the strategic planning context
- Support the development of masterplans, strategies and planning submissions
- Encourage collaboration
- Encourage active engagement by providing concise and relevant online content
- Illustrate patterns of change within OAs at a pan-London scale
What data do we use?
The Datahub holds detailed information on planning applications, permissions, commencements and completions in Greater London. This helps in tracking development progress across London. The data received is supplied by applicants for planning permissions and may be subject to inherent issues and errors. For more information, please see The Planning London Datahub.
OA residential dashboards
Dashboards provide us with detailed information on development progress. This includes planning applications, planning permissions, when development starts, when development is completed, the future pipeline of development. We can also illustrate the average density of development in OAs.
Each dashboard features several filters, and maps to visualise the progress of OAs against the different metrics. There is also a ‘button’ that provides relevant definitions.