[Talk-GB] Significant planning applications

[Martin Wynne]

What if any, is the guidance on mapping the location of a significant 
planning application?

There is an application locally to build several hundred houses on what 
is currently mapped as farmland.

I have been asked if there is an online map available which shows the 
location. At first sight OSM seems the obvious answer, but there is 
absolutely nothing on the ground to be mapped to show the existence of 
the planning application (apart from a few A4 paper notices on 
fenceposts - hardly mappable).

What if anything can I add and then provide a link to on the standard 
OSM map? A boundary relation? Tagged as what?

Of course, there are the application maps on the local planning 
authority's web site, but they are difficult to access for the general 
public - require a file download, they don't have North at the top, and 
they don't show the surrounding countryside.

Thanks.

Martin.