PlanningAlerts

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Joanna Hill, Service Designer and Researcher, writes about her experience and methods of digging around in PlanningAlerts' email inbox to understand the experience of people using the service oaf.org.au/2022/12/07/wha…

Interesting to see what's been happening in the UK

Highly recommend @PlanningAlerts a free service from @OpenAustralia which alerts you to development applications in your area so you have time to respond. Super handy when your little suburb is subject to creeping DAs by stealth & the local paper is defunct #community #localgov

270,000 new people can get planning alerts because we added 9 new councils in VIC and 2 new councils in NSW. Hooray!

A property developer is threatening us with legal action for defamation. We're urgently in need of legal help. Can you help or know someone that can? Please help! DM us or mail us at contact@oaf.org.au. Thank you.

Come help fix scrapers and improve the platform for all

Putting Councillors to Bed in PlanningAlerts oaf.org.au/2021/09/13/put…

We've just added support for the GeoJSON format to the PlanningAlerts API. See planningalerts.org.au/api/howto This is good for GIS users and also makes it easy to integrate PlanningAlerts with some open source mapping tools

Inner West Council @IWCouncil is back on PlanningAlerts after a (far too long) break. They switched to a new system early last year which proved to be difficult to get data out of :-( But we managed it! For example this "Demolition of all buildings" planningalerts.org.au/applications/2…

Have you found PlanningAlerts useful? Then please consider donating oaf.org.au/donate/plannin… It's tax deductible

Happy for Moreton Bay Regional Council in Queensland @MoretonBayTweet to be back on PlanningAlerts. After the council switched over to a custom system for showing development applications we wrote a custom scraper to get the information. 450,000 people can get alerts once again!

Welcome Cassowary Coast Regional Council @CassCoastRegion cassowarycoast.qld.gov.au. Around 30,000 new people can receive Planning Alerts now. That's a cause for celebration.

Midcoast council is back!

Ku-ring-gai Council @krgcouncil is back on PlanningAlerts too now. You were blocking all overseas traffic to your website which was stopping us from getting at the information but we'll overlook that! :-)

Parkes, Lithgow, Tamworth, Wynham, Mitcham and Mid-western regional councils are now back on PlanningAlerts too

Newcastle @CityNewcastle is back on PlanningAlerts! It's been too long. We missed you.

@Info_Aus @LGNSW We hadn't. Very interesting. Thanks for letting us know!

@LGNSW I wonder if @PlanningAlerts has seen this?

Regional councils across the State will have access to almost $5 million funding to digitise their planning processes thanks to the advocacy efforts of NSW’s peak body for councils. See our media release: lgnsw.org.au/Public/News/20… #localgovnsw #CouncilsDo

Then we'll be working on some bigger long term solutions to make sure that an email getting hard bounced by a council doesn't happen quietly... Undoubtedly we'll figure out more as we go but that's the plan right now! :-)

We're taking a bunch of steps to fix the problem at different levels. First we're resending comments by hand that didn't get delivered. Then, we'll be trying to work with the council to figure out why there's an intermittent email problem. Then...