{"id":46017,"date":"2026-03-17T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46017"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:14:21","slug":"ihbc-hesprs-news-from-the-sector-ukau-on-google-hired-by-government-to-develop-ai-planning-decisions-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46017","title":{"rendered":"IHBC HESPR\u2019s \u2018News from the Sector\u2019: UKAU on Google \u2018\u2026 hired by government to develop AI planning decisions tool\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IHBC\u2019s heritage business register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">HESPR<\/a> \u2013 our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition<\/a> quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/resources\/HESPR-News-&amp;-Tender-Alert.pdf\">News and Tender Alerts<\/a>\u2019, and this week features<em><u> UKAU on \u2018<\/u><\/em>Google hired by government to develop AI planning decisions tool\u2019.<strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">SEE MORE ON HESPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/#join\">JOIN HESPR, FROM \u00a3145PA (TO 2 EMPLOYEES)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/resources\/HESPR-News-&amp;-Tender-Alert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download sample weekly alert<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>UK Authority.com<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 &#8216;The tool is designed to assist planning officers by automating administrative and analytical processes, such as policy research, citation generation, and compliance assessments. It will integrate with existing planning systems and provide reasoned, verifiable recommendations for decisions.&#8217;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukauthority.com\/articles\/google-cloud-to-develop-ai-planning-decisions-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Conservation_wiki\">IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC\u2019s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ihbc.org.uk\">contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a>, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/jobsetc\/\"><em>IHBC Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>, including a targeted email to 2500+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.25,000) and websites with c. 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ihbc.org.uk\">contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018News and Tender Alerts\u2019, and this week features UKAU on \u2018Google hired by government to develop AI planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[348,18,23,16,155],"class_list":["post-46017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-ai","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-planning","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46018,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017\/revisions\/46018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}