Changelog, Wednesday 5th February 2025

We've shipped some updates to our Scout and Appraisal tools.

We've added some label groups to Scout so it's a bit easier to see what information is available.

We've added DNO powerlines for UK Power Networks, Northern Powergrid, and Electricity North West. The rest will follow in the not too distant future. You can see the the voltage and whether the powerline is under or above ground.

We've also added a planning applications layer. This lets you see the location of planning applications in the area, information about them, and links to their page on the local planning authority's website. This is still early in development and only covers a few locations (Sheffield, Cambridge, and Westminster initially). But now the infrastructure is in place we're going to quickly expand this to the rest of the country.

You can help with this! We are building our planning application scrapers in the open and would love your contributions. We're also going to start releasing regular dumps of the planning application data since actually running the scrapers takes quite a bit of time. We hope that as we expand the coverage and richness of the data other people will find it useful and build interesting things with it.

If you'd like to join our team, we are hiring.

Finally, if you are someone who works on planning applications or similar documents, we would love to speak to you and show you what we are developing. We're very excited about it and are working on some new tools that we think will make your life a lot easier. More on this soon. In the meantime, drop us a line at [email protected].