Live prototype: https://digital-land.github.io/topic-page/
A prototype of a /topic/{topic} page for planning.data.gov.uk, for the topics local-plan, minerals-plan and waste-plan.
Each topic page has:
- a summary and counts of plans on the platform
- a map of the plan boundaries
- a timeline chart of plan milestones from the timetable dataset (local plans only, as the other topics have no timetable data yet)
- the plan data model diagram from the specification
- links to the specification, guidance and related datasets
- search and facets over the plans
Requires Python and GNU make.
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install shapely black
make data # fetch datasets and build data/*.json
make serve # http://localhost:8000/
Open / for the list of topics, or /topic/local-plan directly (redirects to topic.html?topic=local-plan, which also works on GitHub Pages).
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
topics.json |
topic configuration: datasets, summary, guidance and related datasets |
bin/build.py |
downloads CSVs from files.planning.data.gov.uk (cached in cache/) and writes simplified boundaries, plans and events to data/ |
bin/server.py |
static server mapping / to index.html and /topic/* to topic.html?topic=* |
bin/commencement.py |
searches LPA websites for local plan commencement notices and writes data/commencement-notices.csv |
index.html |
index of topics |
topic.html, topic.js, topic.css |
the topic page |
Add an entry to topics.json naming the plan, boundary and optional timetable datasets, then run make data.
The software in this project is open source and covered by the LICENSE file.
Individual datasets copied into this repository may have specific copyright and licensing, otherwise all content and data in this repository is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.