Google Streetview saves councillor soaking
Just seen this fantastic use of scary Streetview by forward thinking Sutton councillor, had to share it.
Another example of tech saving time and money and a soaking.
Search
Planning Portal Twitter
- Manston Airport planning decision deadline extended #planning #infrastructure twitter.com/PINSgov/status… 15 hours ago
- Article from @RIBA on the impact of Brexit uncertainty on construction #FridayThoughts #BrexitBritain twitter.com/RIBA/status/12… 3 days ago
- Planning news – 16 January 2020 blog.planningportal.co.uk/2020/01/17/pla… 3 days ago
- This guidance note applies to all property that falls under the definition of ‘new-build’ @RICSEngland #planning… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
- RT @labcuk: LABC #Compliance Tips for #Builders: Building an #externalwall? Renders and #weepholes… are you using them correctly? Find out… 6 days ago
Recent Comments
Portal Director on 2019 round-up Clive Wilson on 2019 round-up clive@domiciledesign… on Three tips for working with th… arnold gilpin on Three tips for working with th… LW on Three tips for working with th… dr silver on Prior Approval applications ad… Emmet Johnson on Summary: Legislation for plann… -
Recent Posts
Tag Cloud
1APP 5MB Advertising Agents Application fee applications Approved Documents arboriculture architecture Blog Building Control CAMs Canny State CIL coalition Commercial Communication Community Infrastructure Levy content dclg development plans downturn e-Consultation education efficiency enforcement events feedback fees file compression file size file size limits FTS future Government guidance improvements innovation Interactive House IPC IRP jobs just interesting Killian Pretty Local planning LPAs Mapping NMA non-material amendments nonsense objectives online applications out and about PARSOL penfold Permitted Development personal planning applications Policy portal 2.0 Pre-App re-design S106 Smarter Planning Statistics stats strategy Support technical TPO traffic trees upturn web 2.0 workshopsCategories
- awards
- Building Control
- Channel Shift
- CIL
- Commercial
- Content News
- Digital mapping tool
- FTS
- General news & updates
- Good Practice
- Greener planning
- Home security
- Housing Delivery
- Important news for LPAs
- Important news for planning agents
- Improving the Portal
- Killian Pretty
- Localism
- Mapping tool
- Opinion piece
- Outbuildings
- Parish councils
- planing application fees
- planning applications
- planning permission
- Planning Portal Conference
- Planning Portal news article
- self-build
- Shameless PR
- Smarter Planning
- Statistics
- Technical news
- The application process
- Uncategorized
- Useful Information
- video preview
- Welsh Government
Truly Google Street Views is a very powerful tool. The Telegraph hit the nail by announcing: ‘Google Street View: tidy up your gardens, your house is next’
Reporting here from Royal Tunbridge Wells, we have many Councillors living in the rural areas of the Borough. Most of them have past the age where walking is fun or even exercise. They could actually do their virtual walkabouts and learn about the current street scene ‘grot spots’.
Could you imagine Google cars driving out to rural ‘asbestos covered farms’ with hundreds of illegal outbuildings in AONBs?
Councillors using Street View to make decisions is lazy and not to be recommended, as it shows only snapshot in time it can’t give a realistic impression of the ‘workings’ of an area as viewed on screen, for instance it can’t show traffic flow or the way that people use the area.