Opinion
A field guide to reading planning notices
Staff report · Friday, 28 August 2026
The grey site notice on the lamppost is the most-ignored democratic document in the country. Here's how to parse one.
You have five weeks. That is the first thing to know.
The second: the reference number is your key to every drawing, objection and inspector's report, all public, all online.
The rest of this guide walks through a real notice, line by line.
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