Planning Alerts API

Seamlessly integrate planning alerts data into your custom application

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Planning Alerts Application Programming Interface (API) serves community groups, businesses, NGOs, and civic-minded individuals by providing access to trusted planning and development application data.

  • Sourced from planning authorities around Australia
  • Easy to use REST API
  • Data updated daily
  • Save considerable time and money by not having to develop this stuff yourself
  • Delivering reliable and trustworthy service for over 14 years
  • As a bonus support a charity doing good work

Who uses our API?

Lots of people!

Real estate developers and agents, construction companies, urban planners, architects, local government and municipalities, property management firms, community advocacy groups, environmental and heritage organizations, academics, legal firms, conveyancers, utility companies, insurance companies, researchers, tech startups and app developers are interested in this data.

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Community Plan

API data for strictly non-commercial use for public benefit.

$0 AUD / month

  • Return up to 100,000 applications per day
  • Full use of the API

Contact us to apply

Standard Plan

Set and forget reliable API service, effortlessly integrated into your application.

$3499 AUD + GST / month

  • Return up to 500,000 applications per day
  • 1 product
  • Priority email support

Contact us to sign up

Premium Plan

More power and flexibility. Talk to us for pricing.

Potential add ons can include:

  • Access to bulk data API
  • Multiple products
  • Return more than 500,000 applications per day
  • Search for applications by description
  • Customised integration options

Contact us to discuss your needs

Instant access 14 day trial

Build, test and explore with live API data

Enjoy up to 100 requests a day (returning up to a total of 10,000 applications per day) for 14 days.

To get an instant API key simply create an account or sign in.

What's in the API?

In our API you can find Australia-wide data, updated daily:

  • Single Location by longitude/latitude
  • Area by longitude/latitude
  • Planning authority
  • Postcode
  • Suburb
View the developer documentation

What's not in the API?

For privacy reasons our API does not return personal information including Planning Alerts user comments or names associated with applications.

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Used by

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Trustworthy and up to date data

14 yrs

We've been doing this for more than 14 years with an extremely experienced team. Leverage that for your own needs rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.