The PropTech Innovation Fund is MHCLG’s flagship programme to support testing and scaling digital innovation across the planning and housebuilding process. At the core of the fund is collaboration across tech companies, local authorities, industry, community organisations, and academia, leveraging technology to improve the way places are designed, planned, and built.
The Fund was introduced in July 2021 to enable the UK’s PropTech sector and local planning authorities to work together across key planning and housing challenges like planning consultations, land assessment, and infrastructure modelling. To date, the fund has supported 100+ collaborative pilots, contributing to the growing evidence base about PropTech’s potential for improving planning and housebuilding across the UK.
You can find information about previous rounds 1-4 of funding here and round 5 here, where PropTech companies have worked with public and private partners to leverage frontier technology like AI and digital twins to tackle bottlenecks in site identification, viability assessment, consultation analysis, and more.
