Development Consent Orders (DCOs) are required for any construction project in England and Wales that is considered a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
It is a very specific set of stages and deliverables which the Government has laid out. There are 6 steps and the process should take around 15 months in total:
- Pre-application
- Acceptance
- Pre-examination
- Examination
- Decision
- Post-decision stages
The process is logical and straightforward but can cause issues for projects which don’t maintain the necessary discipline to manage their deliverables and validate their submissions internally first.
Synaform have built Project:OS for exactly this sort of challenge. We have extracted all the relevant deliverables and built up a series of controls around them:
- Levels of effort associated with delivery
- Common risks that cause applications to be rejected (based on historical data)
- Relevant mitigations to ensure the risks are not realised
- The roles required to deliver the work and when they will be needed
- Dependencies of the various tasks
Any new client looking to use Synaform and Project:OS benefits from this work on day 1. We will have a discussion about the specifics of your project and then deploy a fully collaborative environment complete with guidance, task management, and resourcing. This allows us to track the project from start to finish, keeping tight control over the delivery of your DCO; running risk simulations, AI-based reviews and engaging your delivery team.
