The challenge
As a business who feels a responsibility to plan communities with integrity, quality and reliability, Otium Planning Group takes a rigorous evidence-based approach to their work.
Taking this path meant relying on technical experts like GIS analysts to interrogate and interpret spatial data, creating potential resource overloads and operational losses because not all staff members were equipped to find the answers to project-related spatial questions.
With this in mind, Otium required a solution that could empower its team members to independently find specific spatial insights related to: accessibility and catchment areas, land use around existing and future sites, visitation and travel patterns to any location and more.
The solution
Using Planwisely’s self-service, web-based interface, broad spatial data library and analytics toolkit, Otium Planning Group gave their team the power to autonomously extract insights, helping them make informed decisions based on evidence.
Specifically, Otium team members can now quickly and easily understand current and forecast demand, articulate gaps in community infrastructure provision, visualise duplication across sport and recreation networks and understand the broader planning network beyond local government boundaries. This information has helped inform sport and recreation strategies, site-specific feasibility studies and business cases, as well as a range of other projects designed to facilitate sustainable community outcomes and promote active lifestyles.
With a newfound ability to quickly understand the spatial context of their projects, as well as visualise and customise a range of attributes in a given area, Planwisely has added extra confidence and flexibility to Otium’s consulting team, helping them to make critical decisions at all stages of the planning process.
