Sid Ryan’s planning applications map

Sid Ryan wanted to see if planning applications near planning committee members were more or less likely to be accepted. In two guest posts on Help Me Investigate he shows how to research people online (in this case the councillors), and how to map planning applications to identify potential relationships.

The posts take in a range of techniques including:

• Scraping using Scraperwiki and the Google Drive spreadsheet function importXML
• Mapping in Google Fusion Tables
• Registers of interests
• Using advanced search techniques
• Using Land Registry enquiries
• Using Companies House and Duedil
• Other ways to find information on individuals, such as Hansard, LinkedIn, 192.com, Lexis Nexis, whois and FriendsReunited

If you find it useful, please let me know – and if you can add anything… please do.