Planning Application Alerts

Planning Application Alerts — London planning applications on your street, sent to your phone. Planning applications are public once they are validated, but hearing about one means running a planning application search on a council portal and remembering to do it again. This app watches the London Planning Datahub for you — London only. This app never signs in, never comments on or objects to an application and never asks for personal details. It reads the public application list, tells you when one matches your watch, and links you to the council's own page when the source carries that link. WHAT IT DOES • Planning application notifications on your phone, with no e-mail sign-up: checks run every 6 to 24 hours, and Check now shows the last four days at any time • Narrow to a postcode district such as NW3, so the alerts are about your street, not the whole borough • Add a phrase - loft conversion, basement, demolition - and the source filters on it before anything is downloaded • Planning permission alerts too: follow the decision and hear when one is granted or refused • Every alert shows the status as the Datahub lists it - Approved, Refused, Application Received - with the address, the description, the reference and the council's own page when there is one • No map: one authority and one postcode district are enough HOW YOU SET IT UP You create one watch — for example “Camden, NW3, loft conversion” — and close the app. At the interval you choose it checks newly validated London planning applications; when an application matching your watch appears your phone gets a notification. It never tells you about the same thing twice. If checking breaks (server down, page changed) it says so instead of dying quietly. Settings shows how many bytes each check costs. Light and dark theme. WHO IT IS FOR Neighbours, leaseholders, builders and agents following a London planning application while it is still open. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO • It does NOT comment on an application, does not object and does not support one. It points you at the council's page; you act there yourself. • It does NOT sign in and never asks for personal details. • It asks you for no account. No sign-up, no password. • No personal data goes to the developer. Google's ad SDK collects IP, interactions, diagnostics and device IDs. • The free tier is paid for by ads: banner, interstitial, rewarded, rewarded interstitial, app open, and an “Ad”-labelled card in your watch list. No interstitial on launch; a rewarded interstitial always opens with an intro screen you can skip. • Nothing of it stays pinned to your notification shade. WHAT IT COVERS The London planning authorities that publish to the Datahub - a 120-day sample carried 26 of them. Coverage follows the source. Filtering happens on the source's side, so a check downloads only your matches. PRIVACY The planning authorities and streets you follow stay on this phone, not with the developer; it only reaches the source you watch, like a browser. Permissions requested: network state, internet, notifications, letting the ads library tell Wi-Fi from mobile data, restarting watches after a reboot, vibration, keeping the phone awake while a check runs, Google Play billing (no product on sale) and ads in the free tier. LIMITS — honestly • Android may delay background checks to save battery. The interval you pick is a target, not a guarantee. • Very frequent checking is deliberately limited out of respect for the Planning Datahub index. Where the data comes from: the Planning London Datahub, the Greater London Authority's open planning index: https://planningdata.london.gov.uk/api-guest/applications/_search Planning Application Alerts is an independent app. It is not developed, endorsed or supported by the Greater London Authority or any London council. Contact: bulbildir@mail.com