adrianshort

Setting aside the rights and wrongs of the relicensing, the practical effects are these: The Hippocratic License is not an FSF/OSI-approved free/opensource license because it puts restrictions on how the...

If you're running macOS Mojave (10.14) or Catalina (10.15) you need to enable full disk access for your Terminal app before the instructions above will work. 1. Open Security and...

Northgate uses a separate form for its appeals search, which is hidden on some sites, eg Liverpool: http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/AppealsSearch.aspx This one appears not to work, giving a `DataField RESTRICTED not found...

A scrape of approx 5000 _decided_ planning applications in London came up with 39 distinct status codes: [statuses.csv.txt](https://github.com/adrianshort/uk_planning_scraper/files/2454224/statuses.csv.txt) The data is from the [London planning applications scraper](https://morph.io/adrianshort/london_planning_applications).

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Currently the scraper only works for sites running Idox and Northgate systems. I don't recognise this system so it might be a one-off/custom one. Someone's going to have to write...

I've asked MHCLG and apparently there isn't a definitive register of UK planning authorities. There are registers of local authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. And then you...

I haven't tried it yet but I assume we could find many of the search URLs for many authorities by spidering council websites from their homepages. Look for the planning...

Another tell for the target URL would be that it's on a different subdomain to the main council website. You can see the common subdomains by parsing the URLs we've...

Thanks. The other issue is authority IDs: the local authorities have got GSS IDs but the non-local authority planning authorities don't.