Re:Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions...
by mebkorea on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:12AM
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Thanks, honestly that means a lot! Yeah, the pre-submission review idea is interesting and I've thought about it. I have the data to surface "applications similar to yours in your ward, here's what got approved and what didn't" but I haven't built it as a workflow because it requires the user to upload their plans... and that's a different kind of trust ask, but yeah, it is definitely worth revisiting. £100-500 is also a much more honest price for something that genuinely changes a decision. £19 is in the awkward "too much for curiosity, too little for stakes" zone you and the other commenter are both pointing at.
I don't know if I would pay £19 for a general state-of-the-area report. I would almost certainly have paid £100-300 for a service that took my planning application, critically reviewed it and told me which aspects were and were not likely to pass, with references to specific examples within my local area.