OpenAustralia launches Planning Alerts – know about changes in your neighbourhood

I believe in neighbourhoods. Bouncing round the globe as I do, that might sound strange, but belonging is an important thing for me about where I live and my best experiences are always about close knit neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods evolve, but the fact is you want their character to remain the same. Someone putting in a freaking big box store right next to the cute little coffeeshop and Italian restaurant you love is just not on. And you rarely know about it before the bulldozers show up.

So, OpenAustralia has created the excellent Planning Alerts website. Type in your email address and a postal code and a radius to be informed about and you’ll end up knowing when some corporate evil-doer is thinking of altering the fundamental character of your hood.