It was great to hear last week of the progress Chris and his team at OpenlyLocal have made on resurrecting Planning Alerts.
Thanks to their efforts we now have a site where we can view planning alerts for each council across the country. Not all councils are there yet, but it’s a great start.
As expected, the applications are available as XML, JSON and GeoRSS, which made it easy for me to – in two hours – produce a WordPress plugin that allows any self-hosted WordPress site to display a widget of recent planning applications.
You can download the plugin right now from WordPress.org. If you fancy contributing, it’s also on Github.
At the moment, there’s just the widget. I plan to add the ability to add lists of planning applications into posts and pages, as well as maps pinpointing each application.
Comments welcome!
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