Developer scrapes 241 UK council planning portals, collects 2.6 million planning decisions
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mebkorea
Soft in all the wrong places. Take with a strong tea.
Summary
A developer spent four months scraping 241 UK council planning portals, collecting 2.6 million planning decisions across England, Scotland, and Wales. The article highlights the paradox that while UK planning data is technically public, it's fragmented across 400+ different council portals with varying systems (Idox being most common), outdated technology (some running ASP.NET from 2004), and inconsistent schemas, making access extremely difficult in practice.
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some still running bespoke ASP.NET that looks like it dates from 2004
I've spent four months scraping them. I'm now at 241 councils and 2.6 million decisions across England, Scotland and Wales
In theory this makes things easy. In practice every council has conf
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