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📢 A message from OpenAustralia Foundation CEO, Ben Fairless—the former volunteer administrator of Right to Know:
oaf.org.au/2026/10/13/this-l…
PlanningAlerts retweeted
Civic infrastructure for the informed local citizen in Australia - help keep Planning Alerts running for the next 12 months. Donate $15, $50 or whatever feels right to you.
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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/what-a…
Interesting to see what's been happening in the UK
We have launched a new Planning Data platform on @GOVUK which aims to make land and housing data easier to find, understand, use and trust.
Data is collected from local planning authorities and transformed into a consistent state, across England: planning.data.gov.uk/
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Highly recommend @PlanningAlerts a free service from @OpenAustralia 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
270,000 new people can get planning alerts because we added 9 new councils in VIC and 2 new councils in NSW. Hooray!
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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.
Come help fix scrapers and improve the platform for all
Software developer or starting out? We're hiring! Want to apply your skills to doing good useful work in the world?
Attitude > Experience
Please RT - we need this to go out to people that wouldn't normally. Please help!
oaf.org.au/jobs/
(with a link this time)
We've just added support for the GeoJSON format to the PlanningAlerts API. See planningalerts.org.au/api/ho…
This is good for GIS users and also makes it easy to integrate PlanningAlerts with some open source mapping tools
Inner West Council @IWCouncil 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/applic…
Have you found PlanningAlerts useful?
Then please consider donating oaf.org.au/donate/planningal…
It's tax deductible
Happy for Moreton Bay Regional Council in Queensland @MoretonBayTweet 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!
Welcome Cassowary Coast Regional Council @CassCoastRegion cassowarycoast.qld.gov.au/. Around 30,000 new people can receive Planning Alerts now. That's a cause for celebration.
Ku-ring-gai Council @krgcouncil 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! :-)