• On the forest management plan project, Sam and Jane have been focusing on designing a practical, user-centred guidance page to support applicants to prepare and apply for a plan.

  • Mary and Jane have finalised the web content for new parking charges at three of our sites and this has all been signed off by subject matter experts. The content is now being translated into Welsh and we’ll be publishing it all on the website next week.

  • The laws on beaver legislation and protection changed this week, making them one of Wales’ protected species. Laura and Hannah worked together to condense and streamline the content in preparation for publishing.

  • The intranet project team has been working hard this week. We’ve added new draft content to the SharePoint Modern test site. This helps us understand how the content would look and feel in live. We’ve arranged a content crit for 10 March to demo content templates. We’re also looking to run a showcase presentation to include DDaT and Communication at the end of March.

  • James tested a free card sorting tool to organise new draft intranet categories. This is based on the intranet content audit and the work we’ve done to consolidate around 1000 pages into 135 user needs.

  • James worked through the results of his workshop with the KIM Team to cluster and name the tasks connected to data on the intranet. This will help identify any missing user needs from our audit of the existing content.

  • Sam has been working on a routing check service for marine licences. This is a series of yes/no answers with four possible outcomes. She’s also agreed the wording, layout and page title of a new public register for planning.

  • Jane and Sam have been working on a new, practical guidance page about Forest Management Plans to test with users.

  • Having scoped the requests to change as well as create an online form and content for installations permits, Phil will start work on the variation form next week.

  • Laura carried out some ‘light touch’ content design on a technical guidance note about how to model blockages and breach scenarios as part of a Flood Consequence Assessment. It has been sent to the subject matter expert for approval.

  • Lucinda has been working on a new feature to provide flood event reports. She’s spoken to the Communications Team and Flood Duty Managers about what would help them

  • Sophie and Lucinda have been working on fixing 404 errors on our website by tracking down the source of the broken link and adding redirects.

  • Laura and Heledd attended the ‘Access Request Discovery Update’ to find out more about the work and how this might affect the ‘using land we manage’ service. They shared the insights, data and recommendations gathered by the team during the permissions project.

  • And…THE SUN CAME OUT!!! It went away again, but we won’t talk about that.