31st July 2025 by Simon Greaves
Our annual performance report is now published and contains a summary of the Council’s performance between April 2024 to the end of March 2025. The report highlights many positives, with areas of outstanding performance and progress helping to improve life for residents, businesses and visitors at a...
11th July 2025 by Simon Greaves
Vision 34 was officially launched at the annual ‘We are Calderdale’ partnership event in June 2025. It marked a significant milestone and the start of a 10-year ambition for the whole borough, which will build hope and aspiration, making Calderdale an even better place to live, work, play, learn,...
3rd March 2025 by Simon Greaves
Our Climate Change dashboard has been developed to monitor the progress of Calderdale’s climate action plan. The dashboard is split into the same six key themes as the Calderdale Climate Action Plan: Influencing Community Climate Action Warm and Resilient Buildings Green Economy Transport and...
4th December 2023 by Simon Greaves
Open Innovations are holding their next hackathon which will be for all things net zero. They’re working with Northern Powergrid in their ambition to support our region to meet its decarbonisation pledge. To do this, they want to engage with other Distribution Network Operators (DNO; companies...
19th May 2023 by Simon Greaves
The results from Calderdale Council’s annual residents survey are in, with 70% of people responding to the survey agreeing that Calderdale is a great place to live. Each year, the Council invites residents to take the Vision 2024 perception survey which helps measure progress towards achieving the...
13th January 2023 by Simon Greaves
We’ve published a new dataset showing Warm and Welcoming Spaces in and around Calderdale along with links to regional and national directories of Warm Spaces provided by Open Innovations and Warm Welcome UK. The Open Innovations Warm Spaces Finder pulls together a number of directories from...
7th September 2022 by Sophie Smith
Our newest dashboard published on Data Works is the Cycle Lane Counter Dashboard created using Power BI, this is a visual representation of the Cycle Lane Counter data that we already have published on Data Works. This dashboard includes a number of visualisations, including the volume of cyclists...
10th May 2022 by Sophie Smith
Open Innovations recently completed a short project for Connected Places Catapult which considered ways of supporting Integrated Planning for Net Zero. The deliverables for the project were two prototypes of tools which promote the idea of cross-sector and integrated planning. The concept behind...
29th April 2022 by Simon Greaves
Interview with Simon Greaves, Lead Business Intelligence Officer at Calderdale Council and Paul Connell, Founder of Open Innovations and Grace Durkan, Events and Communications Co-ordinator at Open Innovations. Calderdale is one of Open Innovations founding sponsors and this interview talks about...
30th November 2021 by Simon Greaves
A project to explore ‘levelling up’ from a Northern perspective, by working in the open, inviting discussion and suggestions, and developing a prototype visualisation with open data at its foundation. With no solid definition, ‘levelling up’ could mean something different to everyone, and with no...
11th October 2021 by Simon Greaves
The next #PlanetData event from ODI Leeds takes place on 21 October. The whole day is dedicated to taking Climate Action and advocating for open data. The first #PlanetData event was launched in 2019 as a response to the Climate Emergency. It was an open, collaborative, and energetic event, where...
18th August 2021 by Simon Greaves
How can the broader energy sector – from communities, local authorities, and transport providers through to energy suppliers and producers – make better use of open data to help reduce carbon emissions and support a shift towards net-zero? That is the question at the heart of ODI Leeds #PoweredUp...
5th August 2021 by opendata
The COVID-19 impact assessment, agreed by the Inclusive Recovery Co-ordinating Group, sets out a focus on economic recovery, but also considers the wider impacts of COVID-19 on Calderdale and its communities. The impact assessment informs our partnership recovery planning and forms part of...
26th February 2021 by Simon Greaves
The Northernlands event returns for its third year at ODI Leeds, partnering again with the Embassy for The Netherlands and welcoming West Yorkshire Combined Authority as a new partner for this year, helping to highlight and support the innovation that happens in the region and beyond. Like last...
6th January 2021 by Sophie Smith
There are now 11 interactive dashboards available on DataWorks: Anti-Poverty Air Quality Complaints and compliments Consistent financial reporting Council budgets Council performance overview DataWorks analytics Highways performance Indices of deprivation Traffic count Ward elections Our newest...
18th September 2020 by Sophie Smith
Our interactive performance dashboard and quarterly performance reports measure Calderdale’s progress towards being the ‘best borough in the North’ and achieving the aspirations of the Vision2024 for Calderdale. You can filter the dashboard by corporate priority, vision theme, indicator or service....
12th August 2020 by Sophie Smith
Location: Online webinar Date: 01 October 2020 ODI Leeds will be hosting #AirHack2 on the 1 October 2020. Back in July they hosted an online discussion and ideas session to find out what data was being published, what might be missing and what people wanted to see for the next event. There were some...
16th April 2020 by Sophie Smith
Location: Online webinar Date: 29 April 2020 ODI Leeds hosted their first Planet Data event back in 2019 in response to the Climate Emergency. This was an event where people could share work/data that they were working on to find help or amplify their work so that it could be seen by the right...
5th March 2020 by Sophie Smith
Saturday 7th March is Open Data Day. This is an annual celebration of open data all over the world and a great opportunity to raise awareness and show the benefits of open data (efficiency, transparency, innovation and economic growth). Here in Calderdale we have proactively embraced Open Data,...
18th October 2019 by Sophie Smith
As part of Calderdale Vision 2024 a Climate Emergency Action Plan has been put together to protect Calderdale’s Distinctive Environment. The Action Plan is made up of 4 main components including: 1. Transport: How we can travel more sustainably within the Borough. 2. Communities and People: How we...
18th June 2019 by Simon Greaves
Ahead of Clear Air Day on 20 June, we’ve published our new interactive dashboard using live data from the three air quality monitoring stations around Calderdale: Air Quality Dashboard Air Quality Monitoring Station 2 Data – Salterhebble, Halifax Air Quality Monitoring Station 3 Data – Market...
13th February 2017 by Lorraine Sutcliffe
#AirHack took place in February at ODI Leeds. The Event was organised by the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the ODI Leeds to explore air quality – the problems, the data, the solutions and was open to anyone interested in air quality. For more information about the...
31st January 2017 by Diane Wilkinson
Use our new interactive dashboards to find out how we are doing. The dashboards show how we compare our progress over time, and how we compare against other authorities: Performance overview . Calderdale Council’s ambition is to be the ‘Best Borough in the North’. We measure our performance on three...
12th December 2016 by Diane Wilkinson
For some festive open data inspiration, our friends at ODI Leeds have created an advent calendar showcasing some great examples of open data in action, including Wee three kings (public toilets map) and The Nightmare after Christmas (Boxing day floods). Check back throughout December for your daily...
27th June 2016 by Diane Wilkinson
A number of events and innovations are planned at ODI Leeds. #FloodHack16 In March nearly a hundred people came to ODI Leeds to pool knowledge, share ideas and build solutions to flooding. Supported by TechNorth, and Leeds, Bradford and Calderdale Councils, the aim was to develop innovative tools to...