At Clappform, together with our partners, we continuously work to improve data-driven collaboration. Last week, Elisa Bontrop and Tom Griffioen, together with the relevant stakeholders, organised an interactive workshop on the Public Private Monitor (PPM) at the provincial government offices of Provincie Noord-Holland in Haarlem.

The PPM is currently being further developed as a module within Clappform's new planning capacity monitor. This session was emphatically not a demo or training, but a substantive reality check: does what we are developing actually work in practice? Together with participants from, among others, acceleration tables and municipalities, we tested the following:

• Is the structure of the PPM logical and easy to explain?

• Does the PPM actually help to accelerate housing development?

• Does the monitor remain practical and workable, without unnecessary administrative burden?

• Which bottleneck areas genuinely add value in the discussion?

• What can be simplified, and what needs to change to ensure trust?

What made this session valuable was the open dialogue. The PPM should not become an additional accountability tool, but rather a support tool that facilitates the discussion, strengthens collaboration, and helps identify issues in good time.

We are taking the insights from this session directly into the next phase of development. Practical experience from acceleration tables and municipalities is essential to create a monitor that is workable, reliable and truly supportive of accelerating housing development.