#DigitalStockport Blog

Updates from the Digital Stockport programme being delivered by Stockport Council. To find out more about Digital Stockport get in touch using the contact us page.

All hail our new online taxi driver and vehicle licensing processes

Oct 17, 2019

For the past 6 months the Public Protection Service, specifically, the Licensing team, have been working with the Digital by Design teams to overhaul the Taxi Driver and Vehicle Licensing application processes. The existing system was paper-based, inefficient and...

Get Online Week 2019

Oct 10, 2019

Being online today no longer feels optional because digital touches everything. We use it for our jobs, to pay bills, to apply for schools, to shop, to stay in touch and increasingly to manage our healthcare. Yet we know around 1 in 10 adults in Stockport aren’t...

Two heads are better than one

Sep 25, 2019

They say, “Two heads are better than one”, and this is true, especially when working in Stockport’s software development team. Over the last couple of years, we’ve adopted ‘pairing’ as a strategy/method in software development and it’s working for us. In a nutshell...