The process for planning our places should be accessible, engaging and empowering

This project seeks to transform the UK planning system to make this a reality.

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Why Are We Doing This?

A run down town

Planning is intended to help us design and organise spaces where we can thrive, but it has consistently been falling short...

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What Are We Doing?

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We’re using open mapping processes to enable communities to show what’s important to them, and to have a voice in how their spaces are designed and developed.

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Where Are We Doing It?

An illustration of a run-down town near the sea.

For many reasons, we’ve chosen Ynys Môn / The Isle of Anglesey as the place to develop this project.

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Latest Blog

The map of the Extent

The Medieval Extents of Anglesey – Mapping the Domesday Book of North Wales

After the English conquest of Wales, the kings of England and their heirs commissioned Extents to find out just how much they could tax the Welsh – Dr Nia Jones talks about how these documents work, and what mapping their information onto our modern map of Anglesey can tell us about our past.

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Dr. Nia Wyn Jones
31/03/2025
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What People Are Saying

I just came out of the all-Wales Local Nature Partnership meeting today and a few people were talking about how exciting the Public Map project is and how it could be a 'game-changer' for Local Nature Partnerships in the future! I know everything is stressful right now but just wanted you to know that people are very bought-in and cheering for the project to succeed.

Aurora Hood

Local Wildlife Officer, Cyngor Ynys Môn

We have had so much fun being part of this project, all the pupils have been engaged with all the activities from mapping their journey to school, mapping local areas that are important to them and going on a trip to taking part in the personal air sensor research - this information was so interesting! Our air sensor in the classroom has provided very interesting data too where we have discovered that CO2 is quite high, so we have been trying to lower it in different ways such as opening the door, buying plants, using an air purifier. All the staff that we have worked with have been so great and the workshops we've had have been so fun and the children have learned so much! We look forward to having more sessions with the environmental researchers in the new year. Diolch.

Mrs Mari Edwards

Ysgol Gymraeg Morswyn

What's great about your project in particular is that it is open source. in our world of digital boundaries and bubbles and spaces we live, it's great to be able to share and link information like this across services so that people can find things where they are rather than having to drag themselves digitally to ‘somewhere new’.

Ben Freeman

Manager, DASH Ceredigion

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Working towards a future that prioritises the wellbeing of people and planet.
Public Map Platform is being led by Cambridge, Cardiff and Wrexham Universities and is part of the Future Observatory - the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.