Observed arrival · 2026-11-05
URBED Intelligence maps where Oxfordshire could grow
A working prototype uses open data to let people test scenarios for where new homes could go.
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- Oxfordshire housing and planning working groups
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- The listed layers name their publisher, licence and date; five additional layers are made in the tool itself.
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The prototype combines 36 named, dated open-data layers from 17 sources, organized as constraints, attractors and contextual information. Its described workflow lets users adjust constraints and factor weights, choose a housing target and growth pattern, and compare scored land cells; saved views can produce a one-page summary. The Oxfordshire version covers five districts, while the page says adaptations for other counties would require local layers to be added and checked.
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