PlanningAlerts.org.au (beta)

[aaarghhh]

Hello

Found an interesting site which uses screen scrapping techniques to collect (data mine) Development Applications (DA's) surrounding a specific address, set of GPS co-ords, suburb or council planning authority. The site is a copy of a British model "Planning Alerts.com" and I suspect this is probably more suited to the anti-development brigade, however there is no stopping the use of it to send the relevant council authority support for a development.

"You'd probably know if your next door neighbour was going to knock their house down (you'd get a letter through the door telling you they had applied for planning permission and asking you what you thought about it). But you'd probably never find out if the old cinema or pub 5 streets away is going to be converted into luxury flats until the bulldozers turned up. PlanningAlerts.org.au is a free service which searches as many planning authority 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."

There is a 3GS iphone app that integrates the data mining DA info with GPS information while viewing with the camera.

 

[Roachy]

Thanks for the link aaargghhh.

I have signed up, but have yet to get any alerts.