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Catch duplicate authorities in authorities.csv

South hams and West devon is the only one I've found: http://apps.southhams.gov.uk/PlanningSearchMVC/

Catch duplicate authorities in authorities.csv

With the local authorities it would be useful to reuse the UK Registers ID for the authority as a unique ID as you can then relate that to a url...

Ensuring that you have **every** planning authority in the UK

Some LA planning portals: https://gist.github.com/dhilton/4d714c38cb1ae5acf73ac7b3af242d10

Ensuring that you have **every** planning authority in the UK

https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/guidance-and-resources/communications-support/digital-councils/social-media/go-further/a-z-councils-online + subdomain bruteforcing

How should we use version numbers for authorities data changes?

My opinion is that you're changing PATCH type information; `authorities.csv` could be a config file that a user downloads from the internet (I'm not suggesting you take this route) or...

When creating or destroying a database, the operation does not seem to be wrapped in a transaction

:+1: to what @keymon said - I'd worry about the pipeline being overly complex and adding possibly more points of failure - Postgres can handle most of this, and as...