[Talk-GB] Significant planning applications

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:59 +0000, Martin Wynne wrote:
> 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.
> 
You could create an overlay map using umap.

https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/

Phil (trigpoint)