PlanningAlerts

About PlanningAlerts

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 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 is brought to you by the charity the OpenAustralia Foundation. 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.

Contributors

PlanningAlerts keeps getting better thanks to the contributions from the volunteers:

• Akriti Verma
• Elena Kelareva
• Brian Zhang
• Adam Stiskala
• Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
• Chris Nilsson
• Andrew Harvey
• Sam Cavenagh
• Daniel O'Connor
• Haiming Lai
• Ben M
• Nick Evershed
• Peter Serwylo
• Eric Tam
• Kris Gesling
• Katherine Szuminska
• Andrew Perry
• Matthew Landauer
• Mark Nottingham
• Peter Neish
• Hugh Stimson
• Tim Ansell
• Emil Mikulic
• Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald
• Daniel Schramm
• Dave Wood
• Justin Wells
• Renee Wright
• Mark Kinkade
• Dave Slutzkin
• Adrian Miller
• Kenneth Dinesen
• James Polley
• Hisayo Horie
• Henare Degan
• Luke Bacon
• Jason Thomas
• Kelvin Nicholson
• Christopher Lam
• Kris Splittgerber
• Roger Barnes

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

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PlanningAlerts uses Google Maps services with support of a Google Earth Outreach Grant.