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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.

PlanningAlerts.org.au is brought to you by the charity the OpenAustralia Foundation with financial assistance from the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce. It was adapted for Australia by Matthew Landauer and Katherine Szuminska, and is based on the UK site PlanningAlerts.com, built by Richard Pope, Mikel Maron, Sam Smith, Duncan Parkes, Tom Hughes and Andy Armstrong.

PlanningAlerts.org.au keeps getting better thanks to the contributions from the volunteers:

If you contribute to the project you will get to be on this list.

Planning authorities currently covered by the service

New authorities are being added all the time, so if your local authority isn't listed below sign up any way and you'll start receiving alerts once it has been included.

ACT | NSW | QLD | SA | VIC

If you are a programmer and would like to write a scraper for your local authority, or work for a local authority and would like to make your data available, find out how you can get involved.

Contact

You can get in touch at contact@planningalerts.org.au