Update roadmap for Q3 2024

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-This roadmap shows our current plans for making it easier to find planning and housing data that is easy to find, use and trust.
+This roadmap shows our current plans for making it easier to find, use and trust planning and housing data.
 
-We work in 3-month cycles and we aim to update this roadmap every month. Our plans can change based on what we learn from speaking to our users, testing iterations, and how we can better deliver on our mission.
+We work in 3-month cycles and we aim to update this roadmap every 3 months. Our plans can change based on what we learn from speaking to our users, testing iterations, and how we can better deliver on our mission.
 
-Last updated 17 July 2024.
+Last updated 4 October 2024.
 
 ## Local planning authorities (LPAs)
 
-We’re working with 71 LPAs through the [Open Digital Planning community](https://opendigitalplanning.org/community-members) to help them provide data through our platform, so they can use the [PlanX](https://opendigitalplanning.org/services) and [BoPS](https://bops.digital) digital planning products.
+We’re working with 73 LPAs through the [Open Digital Planning community](https://opendigitalplanning.org/community-members) to help them provide data through our platform, so they can use the [PlanX](https://opendigitalplanning.org/services) and [BoPS](https://bops.digital) digital planning products.
 
-### Now
-
-- We’ve onboarded 43 more LPAs and run regular drop-in sessions and working groups to address challenges, blockers and opportunities
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-### Next
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-- We will work to partner with further LPAs.
+We’re encouraging all LPAs in England to provide planning and housing data.
 
 ## Data
 
-We are designing and collecting data that is valuable to housing and planning, and improving the quantity and quality of data on the platform.
+We are designing and collecting data that is valuable to housing and planning, and improving the quantity of [data on the platform](https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/dataset/).
 
 We regularly ask our community to help us decide the things we need to work on and tell us what they need from the data. Read our [code of conduct](https://github.com/digital-land/data-standards-backlog/discussions/47) to see how you can contribute.
 
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 -   [Article 4 directions](/dataset/article-4-direction) and their [areas](/dataset/article-4-direction-area)
 -   [tree preservation orders](/dataset/tree-preservation-order)
 
-We are improving the visibility, participation and robustness of the [data design process](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/data-design-process). You can take a look at [data standards we’re working on now](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/what-we-are-working-on#:~:text=you%20can%20contribute.-,Working%20on%20now,-These%20are%20the).
+We are improving the visibility, participation and robustness of the [data design process](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/data-design-process). We are also taking more data specifications related to local planning through our design process. You can take a look at [data specifications we’re working on now](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/what-we-are-working-on#:~:text=you%20can%20contribute.-,Working%20on%20now,-These%20are%20the).
 
 ### Next
 
-You can take a look at [data standards emerging as priorities](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/what-we-are-working-on#:~:text=Planning%20applications%20%26%20decisions-,Emerging%20priorities,-These%20are%20the), based on department objectives and our analysis of what will add the most value.
+You can take a look at [data specifications emerging as priorities](https://design.planning.data.gov.uk/what-we-are-working-on#:~:text=Planning%20applications%20%26%20decisions-,Emerging%20priorities,-These%20are%20the), based on department objectives and our analysis of what will add the most value.
 
 We will research how easy the platform is for data consumers and planning policymakers to use, so that we can understand how the platform is being used currently and how well it meets their needs.
 
 ## Platform
 
 ### Now
 
-We are scaling our data processing to support many more organisations and much larger datasets, remaining performant throughout. This includes increasing the number of [title boundaries](https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/dataset/title-boundary) from covering 25 to 311 local planning authorities. We will determine and implement alerts for the most important functions of the data pipeline.
+We are making it possible to rebuild our data quickly and reliably, in hours not days. We are also increasing the number of [title boundaries](https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/dataset/title-boundary) available on the platform after scaling our infrastructure. We have been making performance improvements to our API and will continue to work on the highest priority issues experienced by applications.
 
-We are improving the quality of datasets on the platform, reducing the number of data issues across all datasets and monitoring the number of stale endpoints across the platform. We will reduce operational bottlenecks when managing data, in readiness for local planning authorities providing more datasets sooner. We will enable the assessment of land use by testing an approach for seeding the largest known collection of national planning datasets.
+We will develop a framework so that we can show the quality and trustworthiness of data on the platform, including how it improves over time. We will reduce operational bottlenecks when managing data, and continue to add datasets to the platform quickly. We will also focus on updating the brownfield land data available on the platform.
 
-We will help local planning authorities understand issues with the datasets they’ve provided, and guide and support them through the process of fixing these, to increase the quality of the data provided and the number of datasets conforming to the standards. We will do this through [our service for data providers](/guidance/).
+We will increase the range of datasets that local planning authorities can check and provide to the platform. We will also help local planning authorities understand and act on issues with the datasets they’ve provided. We will do this through [our service for data providers](https://submit.planning.data.gov.uk).
 
 ### Next