We've just discovered a problem with comments that go to City of Canterbury Bankstown. An intermittent email delivery problem specifically with their system has caused some comments to not get delivered properly. This is bad! We're working hard to fix it

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...

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! :-)

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

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

Ku-ring-gai Council Ku-ring-gai Council 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! :-)

Midcoast council is back!

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

Happy for Moreton Bay Regional Council in Queensland Moreton Bay Region 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!

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Inner West Council Inner West Council 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…

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

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

Come help fix scrapers and improve the platform for all

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 [email protected]. Thank you.

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

Highly recommend PlanningAlerts a free service from OpenAustralia Foundation 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

Interesting to see what's been happening in the UK

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…

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