An end-to-end solution for planning, strategy and policy documents.
Bring together multiple contributors to create consultation-ready, interactive documents that put the community at the heart of your policies and plans.
Bring together multiple contributors to create consultation-ready, interactive documents that put the community at the heart of your policies and plans.
Manage the entire lifecycle of your planning and strategy documents, in one centralised platform.
Unlimited authors accelerate the production process, while granular approvals guarantee nothing leaves your authority unchecked.
Ensure inclusivity and analyse community response in real time with a range of engagement and reporting tools.
Create engaging and interactive plans with consultation points in every paragraph, map and image for specific commenting. Add map links for location-based information and embedded media including video for content that truly encourages participation.
Co-authoring means anyone (or everyone) from across your authority - and even external consultants - can contribute to your planning document. Editing is intuitive, version control means you can check changes or roll back, and audit trails give document managers visibility of all activity.
Cascade re-usable content such as policies, definitions, charts, tables, images and more across multiple documents. With duplicated content eliminated, your documents are always current, everywhere.
Assign team members, departments, managers and consultants specific sections of a document to review and approve simultaneously.
Version control, approvals, comments and proposed changes are audited and tracked on a section-by-section basis, making sure nothing leaves the authority unchecked.
Capture all comments, review notes, proposed changes, approval and rejection information throughout the lifecycle of the document.
With a single click, create print-ready PDFs and HTML versions of your plan from one approved master document.
Publish your plans and consultations in multiple languages and host them on your engagement portal, allowing users to switch between bilingual content and controls.
Control your branded document templates and engagement portal to ensure design guidelines are constantly applied across all documents and channels, ensuring a seamless citizen experience.
Make last-minute changes and republish in one click without the need for a graphic designer, so you always maintain a single source of the truth, no matter what or when changes are made.
With surveys and polls on social media and offline engagement, your plan is accessible to all constituents and they can engage in a way convenient to them.
Deliver an engaging digital experience, bringing plans to life with dynamic content. Embed GIS links and consultation points into the plan where comments can be made directly against the issues that matter most.
Submissions of any kind are returned to you in a structured format, allowing for swift collation and analysis, faster responses and easier reporting.
Reduce the burden of response letters and emails thanks to
automation.
Encourage participants to register their interests so they can be automatically contacted for future consultations. Build trust and deepen community relationships by inviting constituents to comment on the topics that matter most to them.
Give citizens the option to subscribe to a location and receive notifications when you release new or updated information relevant to the area of interest.
Support all stakeholders throughout planning policy creation from a single, feature-rich solution
Enhanced multi-channel engagement, supporting wider participation
Better experience via more interactive and dynamic documents
Improved decision-making transparency and feedback
Reduced overhead for producing and updating documents
Accelerated collection, review and feedback of stakeholder responses
More reliable and feature-rich co-authoring of documents
More consistent and collaborative planning lifecycle
Compliant and efficient engagement processes
Single system to handle the entire planning process
Transform your processes across the entire planning policy lifecycle
Allow contributors inside and outside your authority to co-author your planning documents
Embed consultation feedback points to individual paragraphs, maps, images and video content
Know who did what and when with a comprehensive review and approval process
Publish print-ready PDF, HTML or directly to the Keystone engagement portal
Accelerate the collection, review and response process
Generate reports in a format ready for the planning inspector
Objective Keystone will allow us to easily manage the entire lifecycle of our Local Plan from a single platform.
We wanted to make it easier for all of our stakeholders to engage with the plan through regulatory stages and beyond. Keystone is in a unique position to meet our needs.
Brian Taylor
Head of Planning, Peak District National Park Authority
In terms of document production and streamlining the entire process, Objective Keystone is one of the best tools in the market.
Scott Dalgarno
Development Plans Manager, The Highland Council
Case Study
Discover how the introduction of Objective Keystone has resulted in a 400% increase in the use of the council's planning website for consultations
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interactive documents that put the community at the heart of your
policies and plans.