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Sad to say that only a few authorities continue to publish that data, everyone else reverted to the methods you described.
In the current climate for local authorities, the time and effort required to extract this sort of information from the current legacy systems and put it into presentable and meaningful formats for public access is an onerous piece of work. This then puts it outside of the sphere of work that is essential to the function of the service and gets added to the ever lengthening list of "nice to haves" that virtually no office in the country is going to try and tackle until there's a lot less pressure on their service.
It's shit and we're in a very shitty working environment. If I didn't care about public service I would chuck it all in and walk away in a heartbeat. I fight for a lot of system and practice improvements but in the world of intractable legacy infrastructure, escalating core business and picking your battles wisely, something like this isn't even close to being on my horizon.
Better open data from local authorities isn't going to move far forward while we're still dealing with the current austerity policies.
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Interesting, thanks for the information!
@mustardbeak Yes, although we've done a lot of work with local authorities to encourage publishing of licensing applications as open data, which is more consistent and digestible. Sad to say that only a few authorities continue to publish that data, everyone else reverted to the methods you described.