Houses in Hackney Photo: Burch & Duke
Hackney residents will now be able to search for, track and comment on planning applications in their area online.
Hackney Council has launched the ‘Find My Nearest’ interactive mapping service to allow people to have their say on developments within their postcode.Those who are thinking of developing their home can also access new ‘Householder Planning Applications’ pages, which provide advice on planning and explain the building process. Some residents may find that their development does not need to go through the planning process at all.
The planning application pages will also contain information about building homes in Hackney’s 29 recognised conservation areas, and plans for the future of the area.
Councillor Guy Nicholson, Hackney Cabinet Member for Regeneration and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, said: “Planning plays an important role in shaping the development of our neighbourhoods and as such it is important that that a Planning service aspires to being accessible to the residents it serves.
“This expanded online service opens up new channels through which we, as residents, can find out as well as comment on, the planning applications that have been made in our local neighbourhood or to report a development that may not have had planning permission.”
To use the ‘Find My Nearest’ service, visit www.map.hackney.gov.uk/Find-My-Nearest. Hackney Council’s planning pages can be found here.
Thanks for highlighting this exciting new tool. The ways that residents get involved in planning applications was the subject of a recent scrutiny review, which found some of the difficulties that councils face in keeping people educated and informed about the planning process. The Scrutiny Commission recommended that current applications be mapped, as well as improving publicity about the role that local councillors have as independent champions for people wanting to comment. The report is available here, please get in contact if you’d like further information. http://bit.ly/zAgweZ
Any Hackney resident can sign up to EASTeight‘s planning applications alerts service and we’ll check to see if a planning application has been submitted near your home and email you an alert.
Every hour, we check what applications have been lodged on the Council’s planning register and then check to see if it is within a distance, specified by you, from your home postcode. If it is, we’ll send you a quick email alert with a link to more details.
Click on the link below to sign up!
http://easteight.com/?p=1156
You can also tailor our map at http://easteight.com/nearme to show you all the local applications on a google map.