Coverage & Mentions

In the Press

Featured articles, interviews, and media appearances on digital transformation, AI adoption, and public-sector innovation.

Press Mentions

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Open Data May 2026

New AI-powered tool to unlock decades of planning data

Simon Millier, Head of Technology and Design at Adur & Worthing Councils, said: “We explored using the Extract AI tool to support our Tree Preservat

Open Data May 2026

Extract: unlocking England’s planning data

We met with the product team who kindly made the visit down to Adur and Worthing's Town Hall to test the tool with our own data, giving us the opportu

Digital Planning Apr 2026

Transforming Planning with PlanX and new funding to help local planning authorities

The Digital Planning programme has made funding available for 23 LPAs to adopt PlanX for a year and experience the benefits for themselves.

public speaking May 2025

Delivering Digital Solutions for Tomorrow’s Councils

Simon Millier from Adur & Worthing Councils and Craig Willis from Netcall share how they've uncovered the future of process optimisation and improveme

Digital Planning May 2025

Funding boost to support digital planning innovation

The MHCLG Digital Planning programme is providing further grant funding to local planning authorities (LPAs), for specific digital, data and innovatio

Jul 2023

Adur & Worthing Councils Launch Services App

Adur & Worthing Councils have launches a smartphone app to give residents easier access to a number of services.

Low Code Jul 2023

No-code Form Builder App Built in Low-code

Form Builder application lets service users build simple forms to free up development time

user research May 2023

Better value technology for housing services

This discovery project, led by Hackney London Borough Council, explored how current housing technology products and procurement processes are stifling

user research Jul 2022

Transformational User Research for Adur & Worthing Councils

Fresh Egg completed two rounds of user testing during the design and build process to help shape the final website. The first test was on the current

Gigabit Jun 2022

Adur & Worthing Councils 1Gb rollout

Adur & Worthing Councils are introducing Gigabit - a state-of-the-art internet service that will upgrade its digital infrastructure and better connect

Open Data Nov 2021

OpenCommunity: data standards for local community-based services

Bring joined-up, best-practice digital thinking to the challenging problem of local service directories.

Open Data Jun 2021

Open Referral (Beta) – formerly Open Community

Four councils have been working together to define the Open Referral UK data standard. Organising community service data in a common way makes it easi

Low Code Sep 2020

Building healthier, happier communities

A digital team, formed of citizen developers and traditional IT staff, are providing low-code enabled Innovation-as-a-Service for the council’s evol

Gigabit Feb 2020

CityFibre speeds up Adur and Worthing’s digital transformation

Low Code Feb 2020

Croydon joins Adur and Worthing in low code partnership

The London Borough of Croydon has joined Adur and Worthing Councils in a partnership to develop digital services using a low code platform.

Service Design Apr 2019

Can chatbots and AI help solve service design problems?

This discovery has explored the feasibility of adopting or developing a common, open source platform for local government to use to develop chatbot/AI

Service Design May 2017

Helping to Build a Brighter Future for A&W Repairs

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