PlanningAlerts

Posted by Tom Hughes on 02/10/2009 - 18:10 | 3 comments

PlanningAlerts.com is a free service built by Richard Pope, Mikel Maron, Sam Smith, Duncan Parkes, Tom Hughes and Andy Armstrong. The site is kindly hosted by mySociety.org. It searches as many local authority planning websites as it can find and emails you details of applications near you. The aim of this to enable shared scrutiny of what is being built (and knocked down) in peoples communities.

http://www.planningalerts.com/

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the sneeky councils...

they will stop publishing postcodes for the planning locations. Thats what mine did.
They come up with some old house name, or some obscure signposted company name that owns the land/building to designate it. That way no-one even realises where it is.

Posted on: Thu, 21/01/2010 - 13:02 — Anonymous

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From the site:

From the site:
PlanningAlerts.com is currently experiencing technical difficulties because of ongoing legal action by Royal Mail.
Our provider of postcode data, ErnestMarples.com, has been taken offline because of legal action. Until we find an alternative source, PlanningAlerts.com will be unable to send out any email alerts, or publish data via it's API. We apologise for the inconvenience. For more information, visit the Ernest Marples Blog http://www.ernestmarples.com/blog/

Posted on: Wed, 23/12/2009 - 16:53 — Anonymous