Re:Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions...
by mebkorea on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:28AM
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All good points. I've been so busy with the data collection and just "irl stuff" that I haven't spoken to planners directly which is an oversight on my part — they're the obvious power users. RTPI/RICS are both on my list but as I said, I've been focusing on data more than distribution. Probably the wrong order tbh.
FOI is interesting, especially for the trickier portals (Liverpool's WAF, the dead-portal ones). It might be cleaner than scraping. MP/open-data angle is definitely something I hadn't seriously considered. Worth thinking about tho! Thanks.
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