It'd be really handy if you could show when an application has been approved or rejected.

Make the largest alert area size larger than 2kms

Most of the planning permit in my area are for dual occupancy residential developments, house extensions, etc. Though I am mainly interested in commercial and other large scale development. Beyond the next door neighbours, I couldn't care less about these micro residential developments, so would be nice to filter them out.

I understand that the councils may not be providing sufficient information to do so, however.

Typical meddling busy bodies. I bet it's a different song you sing when you want to develop you own land or cut down a tree that is cracking your foundations or blocking your pipes.

The airplane graphic shows the statistics of the number of applications in the database.

A white rectangle with black text in the top right corner of the page looks exactly like a search box on 90% of the web-sites, and suggests an inappropriate affordance.